This paper discusses comparison of economic and social indicators in the year 1988 between Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and German Democratic Republic (GDR). The budgetary costs of unification will be substantially larger than initially envisaged. Moreover, if one adds to the budget the...

This volume contains a group of papers written on the eve of German Unification by the IMF mission team working with the German government. It covers an array of critical issues in the economics of the unification process: monetary, exchange rate, fiscal, and structural issues; migration and the...

This volume contains a group of papers written on the eve of German Unification by the IMF team working with the German Government. It covers many of the critical economic policy issues, and especially those on which the debate was most vigorous. It is very much a "first take" on many of these...

This study reviews and analyzes economic development and polices in Federal republic of Germany in 1980. It traces the dynamics of the cyclical upswing that began at the end of 1982 and describes the geneses of two major imbalances in German economy: high unemployment and large external...