Dieser Artikel gibt einen frühen Überblick über die wichtigsten Entwicklungen in der deutschen Wirtschaft im Jahr 2020 unter dem Eindruck der Corona-Pandemie. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist im Jahr 2020 nach ersten vorläufigen Ergebnissen um 5,0 % zurückgegangen. Die deutsche Wirtschaft ist...

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. We do this through developing and calibrating a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium model in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in...

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the...

We show that the long-run economic growth effect of an increase in the retirement age is unambiguously positive in research and development based endogenous growth models. This contrasts recent findings based on models of learning-by-doing-spillovers, in which an increase in the retirement age...