Catching-up of East German productivity to West German levels has completely faded out since the mid-1990s. The remaining productivity gap cannot be attributed to an inferior capital endowment or qualification deficiencies of the East German labor force. Instead, it appears to be the result of...

The paper explores the interactions between foreign direct investment and international trade of the Ger-man motorcar industry. Over the past ten years, German car manufacturers have created more than 100.000 jobs in Central and Eastern European reform countries. These activities have been...

Anti-trust issues increasingly reach beyond national borders. This paper addresses the question whether such issues can reasonably be solved by an extraterritorial application of national competition law or whether they call for an international competition policy of its own. The analysis is...

La littérature empirique sur les effets des frontières suggère que le niveau des transactions économiques est fortement réduit par les frontières nationales. Cet article propose de contribuer à ce débat en utilisant une nouvelle base de données qui se différencie substantiellement de...

"In recent years, the United Kingdom has been remarkably successful in reducing unemployment. The standardized unemployment rate fell from 10 percent in 1993 to 6 percent in 1998, and most observers agree that further reductions can be achieved in the years to come. Also with respect to...

"According to § 63 Sec. 4 AFG, short-time work allowances can be granted under less restrictive conditions, if loss of work occurs in sectors of industry suffering from grave structural deterioration. This article addresses the question of whether or not enough precise criteria exist from an...