Als Mittel der Preispolitik, zur Dämpfung der Preissteigerungserwartungen und zur Korrektur der Vorstellungen über die durchsetzbaren Lohnerhöhungen ist eine gleitende Aufwertung diskutabel, auch wenn kein fundamentales Ungleichgewicht in der Zahlungsbilanz besteht. (G. Fels, H. Giersch, H....

Juergen B. Donges Industrialisierung der Entwicklungsländer - Ziele und Chancen Gerhard Fels Der Standort Bundesrepublik im internationalen Wettbewerb Klaus-Dieter Schmidt Sättigungserscheinungen beim privaten Verbrauch? Norbert Walter Der neue Konjunkturaufschwung nur ein Zwischenhoch?...

Klaus-Dieter Schmidt Inflation und Arbeitslosigkeit Gerhard Fels Produktionsstruktur im Umbruch Juergen B. Donges Anpassungsvorgänge auf den Rohstoffmärkten und die Lage der Entwicklungsländer Norbert Walter Ungleichgewichte in den Zahlungsbilanzen und Funktionsstörungen am internationalen...

The process of selling a state-owned company in former centrally planned economies (CPEs) differs greatly from that of buying a private company in western market economies. While a private seller is normally interested in selling his portfolio expensively, a privatizing agency in CPEs has...

In a transforming economy there is a common legacy of most companies: their low competitiveness as the result of an obsolete capital stock and overmanning, insufficient product quality that does not satisfy demand, distorted specialization patterns, high and partly ill-designed integration,...

It is often argued that the process of globalization has mainly favoured large-scale multinational companies which are able to organize their business efficiently within internal hierarchies. However, globalization has not only pushed cross-border intra-finn transactions but also other...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is rightly considered as an engine in transforming Central and East European Countries (CEECs). Without massive inflows of capital, technology and management know-how a sustainable growth is unlikely to happen. Although governments in CEECs make more than air...

Economic restructuring in the transition from plan to market concerns the way enterprises try to achieve competitive advantage. Therefore, enterprises have to decide where to compete, that is to say with which product they should enter which markets, and how to compete, that is by which strategy...

Der Arbeitsmarkt in der Bundesrepublik und in anderen Ländern zeigt immer mehr ein Doppelgesicht: Die eine Seite ist der zunehmende Mangel an qualifizierten Fachkräften, die andere der anhaltende Mangel an Arbeitsplätzen vor allem für Kräfte mit Qualifikationsdefiziten. Arbeitslosen, die...

The paper investigates the recent trends in privatization by local government organizations in Germany. It comes to the conclusion that the privatization policy has been two-directional: on the one hand, municipalities have reduced their economic activities, mainly by different forms of...