Die Wirtschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland befindet sich in der Abschwungsphase eines langfristigen Wachstumszyklus, der Anfang der dreißiger Jahre begann und um 1960 seinen Höhepunkt überschritt. Die langen Wellen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung werden vornehmlich von langfristigen...

Professor Dr. Norbert Walter Europäische Konjunktur- und Währungsprobleme an der Jahreswende 1978/79 3 Dr. Frank Wolter Die Staatshandelsländer als Konkurrenten auf den europäischen Industriewarenmärkten 10 Dr. Klaus-Werner Schatz Wirtschaftliche Aspekte der Süderweiterung der...

Vorwort 3 I. Einleitung 5 II. Ost-West-Handel 8 a. Entwicklung 8 b. Aussichten für die nähere Zukunft 12 c. Der Handel mit China 14 d. Der sowjetische Ferne Osten 15 e. Komparative Vorteile im Ost-West-Süd-Handel . . 16 f. Gewinne aus dem Handel 17 III. Technologietransfer 20 IV. Die...

Lasting steel crises in Western European and North American countries and increasing efforts of developing countries in establishing national steel industries are contrasting features of today's international steel scene. Has comparative advantage in steel production shifted from the former to...

Significant changes in the structure of production and employment are one of the salient features of West Germany's economic history. However, it was not until the mid-1970s that such changes were accompanied by sizeable friction. After 1973, the hitherto last year of full employment, the German...

Among the hypotheses which have been advanced to explain a country's international trade patterns the neo-factor proportions hypothesis and, more recently, the neo-technology hypothesis have exerted particular appeal both in theory and in empirical testing. The former introduces intercountry...

After two and a half decades of prosperous postwar development, western industrialised countries recently experienced a slowdown of economic growth and productivity advance together with an increase in the rates of inflation and unemployment. The deep recession of 1974/75 has uncovered...

Throughout the sixties and early seventies industrialization efforts made considerable headway in many developing countries (LDCs). In most LDCs the share both of manufacturing value added in GDP and of manufacturing employment in total employment increased within the last fifteen years 5 in...