The paper investigates the business cycle relationships between the EU-15, the EU-11, as well as the EU-core countries for the period 1971 to 1997. Emphasis is put on the question whether there is a synchronization in the national business cycles or not. Using One-way- and Twoway-Anova...

"The paper analyzes the possible existence of a wage curve in East Germany for the time period from 1998 to 2002 using panel data from the IAB-Establishment Panel, restricting the study to firms from the industrial sector. The results give room to the conclusion that there is a wage curve in...

"The paper analyzes the possible existence of a wage curve in East Germany for the time period from 1998 to 2002 using panel data from the IAB-Establishment Panel, restricting the study to firms from the industrial sector. The results give room to the conclusion that there is a wage curve in...

The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...

The paper investigates the business cycle relationships between the EU-15, the EU-11, as well as the EU-core countries for the period 1971 to 1997. Emphasis is put on the question whether there is a synchronization in the national business cycles or not. Using One-way- and Two-way-Anova...