The obsolete capital stock in eastern Germany has to be rebuilt. This will increase the capital demand in Germany for the next few years. In addition to the increased demand for capital, government transfers need to be financed. The macroeconomic accounting identity requires that net savings of...

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...

In dem Beitrag werden zentrale Reformschritte bei der Reorganisation der Alterssicherung und des Gesundheitswesens diskutiert. Im Zentrum steht die Unterscheidung von großen und kleinen Risiken und die Rolle des Wettbewerbs bei der Reform der Krankenversicherung.

Germany has about the same proportion of foreigners in its population as the United States, it is an immigration country. In a way, Germany has let immigration happen, but it did not really have an explicit immigration policy in the past. Now it has to make up its mind on its immigration policy...