Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing … had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech industries of the early twentieth century - automobiles, machinery … to new technological stimuli. In addition, Germany's bank-centered capital and inflexible labor markets have long …

Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing … had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech industries of the early twentieth century – automobiles, machinery … to new technological stimuli. In addition, Germany's bank-centered capital and inflexible labor markets have long …

of regulation in the new markets that cloud computing has created explains the emergence of new platforms and the pre …-emptive strategies used by major CC companies. Regulation or the absence of it, security and privacy are the most important factors that … regulatory authorities address the issues of regulation and security at both national and international levels, the orderly …

Productivity growth has declined since the late 1990s, slowing the catching-up process. Structural reforms to …

human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on Austria and Germany we augment the Solow model to allow for the … of human capital of Austria and Germany by weighting workers of different schooling levels with their respective wage … quantifies how wages change with years of schooling. We find that the time series evidence on Austria and Germany is not …

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …