spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account surplus by increasing wages to forestall a new build-up of …

member states, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Finland. …

Northern European countries, in particular Germany, have tended to be in surplus. The paper scrutinizes the role of diverging …

look at the components of this reversal of capital flows for the case of Germany. Its main finding is that most of the … Germany is small by comparison, with purchases of German government bonds increasing substantially, in particular by Spanish … and Irish investors. Some foreign capital even left Germany. In net terms, over the years 2008, 2009 and 2011 foreigners …

warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific … Eurozone’s specificity, which is instead to be traced back to a sharper-than-expected contraction in investment and fiscal …

We analyze current account imbalances through the lens of the two largest surplus countries; China and Germany. We … its current account surplus, Germany’s surplus has continued to increase throughout and after the crisis. Second, for … turned from being undervalued to overvalued, Germany’s currency has erased its level of overvaluation and become undervalued …