The inverse relationship between economic growth and labor market developments in the form of changes in the unemployment rate is known in economic literature as Okun's law. The objectives of this paper are to estimate a regionalized Okun coefficient and its associated (regional) unemployment...

Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain were all hit by the economic downturn in the course of the financial crisis and have been struggling with national debt crises and recession. A problem common to all of these countries is the collapse of national demand. Foreign trade might seem a logical way...

This paper sheds light on the export structure of the four European countries Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, the so called PIGS countries. These countries were all hit by the economic downturn in the course of the financial crisis and have been struggling with the national debt crisis and...

Eine Befragung privater Haushalte zeigt: Eine große Mehrheit (82 %) hält Maßnahmen zur Förderung von Wohnungsbau für notwendig, jedoch ist die Zustimmung für spezifische Vorschläge geringer. Am beliebtesten sind zinsreduzierte Kredite (68 %) und die Reduktion der Grunderwerbsteuer (56 %),...

Vor dem Hintergrund nahezu kontinuierlich steigender Mietpreise in den angespannten Wohnungsmärken in den letzten zwölf Jahren ist es gerade in Zeiten zunehmender finanzieller Belastungen für die privaten Haushalte mehr als nachvollziehbar, dass die Politik preisdämpfende Maßnahmen...

This paper analyses the revealed comparative advantage for six European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. The results can be summarized as the follows: Italy always had a trade specialisation index which was well above average. Apart from Italy, whose trade...

Walter Eucken was the head of the Freiburg school of economics, a circle of German ordoliberal scholars of the interwar period, whose thoughts were highly influential in the immediate post war period. Being disillusioned by what he called the age of experiments- the failure of both classical...