The first shall be last -- How German workers lost their competitive edge -- Trade-union capitalism -- Competing against the welfare state -- The withering East -- Taxes and transfers : the endless loop -- The birth dearth -- EU enlargement, migration, and the new EU constitution -- Rethinking...

Laut den Zahlen des Statistischen Bundesamtes oder des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft hat Deutschland unter den großen Industrieländern noch immer die höchsten Stundenlohnkosten für Industriearbeiter. Nur kleinere Länder wie Dänemark, Norwegen, Belgien oder Luxemburg sind ähnlich...

Despite its efforts and obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, the EU has not succeeded in even making a dent in the rapidly rising trend of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions. If anything, the trend has accelerated in recent years. In his Thünen Lecture given to the German Economic Association...

After the recent global financial crisis several countries on the eurozone's south-western periphery, in particular Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, have faced severe difficulties involving the risk of sovereign debt defaults and a new banking crisis. Other EU countries, above all France,...