How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...

How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...

Der Artikel behandelt die Gründe für Deutschlands Wachstumsschwäche und beschäftigt sich mit notwendigen Reformen. Eine Belebung des Wirtschaftswachstums kann in erster Linie durch eine Erhöhung der Beschäftigung erreicht werden. Ein weiterer Schritt, um Deutschland wieder...

In seinem Vortrag vor dem hessischen Unternehmertag analysierte Hans-Werner Sinn, Präsident des ifo Instituts, die gegenwärtige konjunkturelle Lage. Die Welt teile sich in zwei Gruppen von Ländern: einerseits die Schwellenländer, Deutschland, Schweden, die Schweiz und einige osteuropäische...

Marx made significant contributions to macroeconomics, laying the grounds for both Keynes's theory of aggregate demand and Schumpeter's theory of creative destruction. His law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall parallels Alvin Hansen's theory of secular stagnation which has recently...

Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...