Entwicklung der deutschen Außenwirtschaftsbeziehungen

Die regionale Struktur der deutschen Exporte hat sich seit den 1990er Jahren kontinuierlich ver?ndert. Die Schwellenl?nder, deren Wirtschaft im Verh?ltnis zu den Industrienationen stark w?chst, gewinnen kontinuierlich an Bedeutung. Nach dem dramatischen Rückgang der deutschen Exporte sch?tzen die Autoren die weitere Entwicklung bis 2020 mit Hilfe eines Gravitationsmodells.     

Außenhandel,Arbeitsmärkte und die globale Verteilung der Einkommen

The authors assess the scope and sources of changes in the technical efficiency of German hospital care in the period 1993 to 2013. German states (Länder) differ substantially in terms of efficiency. The length of stay is the most important driver of efficiency, while the effects of other policy measures depend on funding systems and regional idiosyncrasies. For example, East German hospitals were drastically restructured after reunification, reducing the scope for further improvements. In West Germany, by contrast, increased capital could enhance efficiency. The authors conclude that appropriate policy measures should be pursued, especially in West Germany, in order to increase efficiency.     

Konjunkturschlaglicht: Ende der Rohstoffrallye?

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Konjunkturschlaglicht: Ende der Rohstoffrallye?     

Konjunkturschlaglicht: Ergebnis der Steuerschätzung

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Konjunkturschlaglicht: Ergebnis der Steuersch?tzung     

Konjunkturschlaglicht: Arbeitsmarktpolitik prägend

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Konjunkturschlaglicht: Arbeitsmarktpolitik pr?gend     

Konjunkturschlaglicht: Rohstoffpreise weiter gedrückt

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Konjunkturschlaglicht: Am Rande einer Deflation?

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Grunderwerbsteuer im Länderfinanzausgleich: Umverteilung der Zusatzlast der Besteuerung

Apart from Bavaria and Saxony, all Federal States in Germany have considerably raised property transfer taxes in recent years. There is empirical evidence that increasing property transfer taxes leads to lower turnover on real estate markets. The corresponding negative fiscal impact is partly counterbalanced in the German fiscal equalisation scheme. This paper explicates the relationship between tax hikes and the transfer volume and calculates the responses of the fiscal equalisation scheme in various scenarios.     

Konjunkturschlaglicht: „Gefühlte“ Inflation

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Konjunkturschlaglicht: „Gefühlte“ Inflation     

Konjunkturschlaglicht: Risiken für Preisstabilität

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Konjunkturschlaglicht: Risiken für Preisstabilität     

Wettbewerbsmessung im Bankensektor: alternative Maße — divergierende Ergebnisse

Precise assessment of the competitive conditions is the necessary foundation of numerous stability, productivity and profitability analyses of the banking industry. From a theoretical point of view, a wide range of alternative approaches are available. Nonetheless, the operationalisation of these measures has proved difficult due to regional market conditions, individual business models and generally high data requirements. Considerable divergences and contradictory results are revealed by a comparison of more than 50 studies from four decades. In reference to the resilience and comparability of regulatory inferences, the question remains as to which measure should be favoured in the future.     

Kurswechsel in der deutschen Klimapolitik am Beispiel der energetischen Gebäudesanierung

Direct policy interventions with regard to building energy efficiency are necessarily abstract and therefore not always flexible enough to suit individual living conditions. They disregard local knowledge and cannot benefit from a decentralized search process which would ensue under a taxation scheme. Detailed central decision making is also vulnerable to lobbying by interest groups. The interview results presented here support the high costs and lacking flexibility of current retrofit guidelines. One theoretical as well as three actual retrofit scenarios suggest that the costs of CO₂-reduction under the current policy scheme lie between 300 and 1,000 Euro/ton. Indirect policy schemes are associated with abatement costs of 30 to 200 Euros per ton.