-looking monetary policy decisions. The bias is higher for countries whose monetary policy was more independent of Germany …

leading to speculation about delayed increases or competitive pressures. Given Germany’s large size and openness, spillover … interactions appear to have increased over time. In the midst of a strong recovery, Germany is facing shortages of labor, the … emigration of high-skilled labor, and a reduction in immigration. Germany’s traditionally insider-dominated corporate governance …

Germany. Germany's focus on actual, rather than cyclically adjusted, fiscal goals and outcomes carries the risk of rendering …

economic environment and policies. Declining labor shares, wage moderation, and employment performance in Germany and the …

recovery are balanced but the range of forecasts for 2007 is unusually wide. The priority for Germany is to transmit its …

For more than a decade, growth in Germany has been subdued and uneven. This paper introduces the stylized facts …

for Germany. It projects that Germany’s potential GDP growth will slow over the coming decade, mainly because of declining … labor input. The paper focuses on a long-term fiscal scenario for Germany based on current policies. The paper also attempts … to construct a preliminary public sector balance sheet for Germany, and analyzes the performance of its nonfinancial …