Policymakers have been discussing various potential measures to cushion the impact of skyrocketing gas prices and prevent supply shortages. On 10 October 2022 an expert commission in Germany proposed a plan to keep natural gas affordable while also preventing shortages. The main element of the...

Wie aus den Daten über die Investitionstätigkeit und -planung westdeutscher Unternehmen in der ehemaligen DDR zu erkennen ist, plant das Nahrungs- und Genußmittelgewerbe, verglichen mit anderen Branchen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes, die umfangreichsten Investitionen in der ehemaligen DDR. Die...

In this paper we would like to draw attention on the fact how important for the absorption of the EU funds might be each country's or region's split of its financial portfolio between EU, national and private sources of co-financing. Based on data from the Ex-Post Evaluation 1994-99, this paper...