After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...

In the last decade, many parts of the world experienced severe increases in agricultural land prices. This price surge, however, did not take place evenly in space and time. To better understand the spatial and temporal behavior of land prices, we employ a price diffusion model that combines...

Bei den Tariflöhnen gibt es in vielen Branchen kaum noch Unterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland. Betrachtet man aber die tatsächlich gezahlten Löhne und Gehälter, so liegen diese in Ostdeutschland um fast 20 % unter dem Niveau in Westdeutschland. Wichtige Ursachen dafür sind die...

Summary In the aftermath of Germany’s reunification, redesigning their product range was a major challenge for East-German enterprises. At the same time, there were growing signs that Western enterprises reacted to globalization and European integration by increasingly pursuing strategies of...