According to a widespread view, Germany's unemployment crisis is caused by rigid labour markets, low profitability and increasing international competition. We argue that this view does not provide a convincing explanation for the dramatic rise in Germany's unemployment rate since 1989, first...

Why in recent years has the European economy failed to keep pace with that of the United States? And why, as a result, has the unemployment rate been twice as bad? These three papers — presented to Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee at the beginning of 2000 — suggest reasons...

Zweimal in den vergangenen 10 Jahren unterwarfen politisch-ökonomische Entscheidungen die wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen in Deutschland einem fundamentalen Wandel: Die Wirtschafts-und Währungsunion mit der DDR und die Einführung einer gemeinsamen Währung in Europa. Während der...

The present paper is confined to a macroeconometric disequilibrium model for the Federal Republic of Germany. The model consists of three main building blocks: goods and labour markets and a monetary sector. Allowing for spillovers between goods and labour markets our main concern is to explain...