Die ostdeutschen Bundesländer könnten aufgrund ihrer geographischen Standortgunst zu den Gewinnern der EU-Osterweiterung zählen und von einer weiteren Intensivierung des Ost-West-Handels überproportional profitieren. Um die Folgen eines erweiterten europäischen Binnenmarkts für die...

This paper gives a selective survey of different economic theories in order to discuss the role which IT plays for globalisation and how globalisation and technological progress in the IT-sector influences structural change, economic growth and national competitiveness. The decline in trade...

We analyse the nature of German trade-FDI linkages within the EU27 based on a simultaneous equation gravity approach for imports, exports, in- and outward FDI stocks. We adopt both a Hausman-Taylor (1981) IV approach (3SLS-GMM) and rival non-IV estimation (the system extension to the Fixed...

This paper analyses the causal linkages between regional labour market variables and internal migration flows among German states between 1991-2006. We adopt a Panel VAR approach to identify the feedback effects among the variables and analyse the dynamic properties of the system through...