Es wird nun auch für die NUS-Staaten (Neue Unabhängige Staaten) eine Trendwende erwartet. Die neuen Bundesländer haben aufgrund ihrer früheren Beziehungen besondere Chancen, diese Vorteile für ihre eigene Wirtschaft zu nutzen. Das gilt in erster Linie unmittelbar für die privaten...

The 1990s were the most prosperous decade in U.S. economic history. The paper analyses to which extent this period fits into preceding cyclical experience. This is done by classifying the period 1991-12 to 2000-12 with the help of a 4-phase classification scheme based on multivariate...

Trust or likewise "confidence" (the term preferred in this paper) are notions which have received considerable attention by economists in the last 8-10 years. In this contribution, much emphasis is put on the understanding what we really mean by "confidence", what the differences between...

It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades. Although the German economy has still to overcome the burden of the reunification in 1990 it is shown that this burden might be only one reason of this decline. In this study we...