Auch 20 Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer ist das Phänomen der Ost-West-Migration innerhalb Deutschlands nach wie vor von großer Bedeutung. Das Ausmaß sowie die Selektivität dieser Wanderungsbewegungen erreichte dabei ungeahnte Dimensionen. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert und beantwortet die...

This study compares different methods of calculating the core inflation rate, the latter being taken as the general price trend, i.e. the persistent component of measured inflation. This price trend is therefore assumed to be free of transitory price movements. This paper focuses on an empirical...

The East Asian miracle was real. Prior to the 1997 economic and currency crises, Asian NICs - Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan - achieved remarkable annual GDP growth. In these countries the overall economic performance was significantly determined by the industrial development triggered...