Die Rekonstruktion der institutionellen Entwicklung des DDR-Sozialversicherungssystems von 1945 bis 1990 und der Vergleich mit der seines bundesdeutschen Gegenparts zeigt ein überraschend divergentes und nicht intendiertes Entwicklungsmuster: Die ursprüngliche Absicht in der DDR, die...

One of the dominant changes in academics during the last 25 years has been the steadily growing political pressure on universities to strengthen their links with and knowledge transfers to external partners. This focus on university-industry collaboration has been accompanied by another...

The 1953 London Debt Agreement settled Germany's debts from the period between the two world wars, and allowed the country to re-establish its role in international capital markets. The Agreement wrote-down the overall debt by about 50 percent and gave the debtors a much longer period to repay....

The Great Depression in Germany led to the radicalization of the electorate, leading the country and then the world into the darkest days of Western Civilization. Could it have been otherwise? This paper explores whether the NSDAP takeover might have been averted with a fiscal policy that...