Angesichts eines niedrigen Steueraufkommens bei gleichzeitig hohen Ausgabenerfordernissen in Ostdeutschland wurde im Jahre 1995 der sogenannte Solidarpakt geschlossen, der den ostdeutschen Ländern, befristet auf 10 Jahre, finanzielle Leistungen von Bund und westdeutschen Ländern in Höhe von...

Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany's centrally planned economy was abolished and replaced by West Germany's social market economy. Western Germany has since provided vast financial support to aid the transformation, and enable eastern Germany to catch-up with western Germany's...

This study presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman et al. (2004) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports of foreign direct investment: only the more productive...