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Deutschmark appreciation and structural change: An overview of economic structural reports

Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

Changes in exchange rates have become a prominent issue in Germany and Japan - due to the enormous appreciation of the Deutschmark and the Yen. Conventional wisdom suggests that economic activity will be negatively affected if a currency is going through a phase of appreciation. The paper...

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The BioRegio-contest: a new approach to technology policy and its regional consequences

Dohse, Dirk - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

German technology policy has undergone a remarkable change during the last years. The first thing to mention is that technology policy in Germany takes a broader view now, focussing not only on knowledge creation (i.e. the invention process per se) but also on knowledge diffusion and faster...

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Business incubators in China: an inquiry into the variables associated with incubatee success

Zhang, Haiyang; Sonobe, Tetsushi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

incubation performance. …

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Russian monetary policy: Assessing the track record

Buch, Claudia M. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

the capital account becomes more open. The success of monetary stabilization crucially depends on the effectiveness with …

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How are China's state-owned enterprises doing in the 1990s? Evidence from three interior provinces

Raiser, Martin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

Since its inception in the early 1980s, the success of China's enterprise reforms remains hotly debated. This paper … introduces a new element into the analysis of state-owned enterprise performance by drawing on the recent increase in … administrative restrictions in the interior and relatively poor economic performance. …

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What kind of shock was it? Regional Integration and Structural Change in Germany after Unification

Burda, Michael C. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

apparent repercussions for the West as well – and an integration process involving both capital deepening (extensive and … integration which can account for these facts. Adjustment costs determine dynamics and steady state regional distribution of …. Under competitive conditions, observed factor price differentials contain information on those adjustment costs. …

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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?

Tauchmann, Harald - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany...

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Minimum Wages and Employment: The Case of German Unification

Heitger, Bernhard - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

Analysis in terms of the two-sector open economy shows that in bringing the market economy to East Germany, West Germany seems to have disregarded important fundamentals. Premature formation of a currency union led to a substantial real appreciation of the East German currency. Premature...

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Is Old Money Better than New? Duration and Monetary Regimes

Rose, Andrew K.; Mihov, Ilian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

We compare the duration and performance of different monetary regimes, especially the contrast between countries those …

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Productivity and the Product Scope of Multi-product Firms: A Test of Feenstra-Ma

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of “cannibalizing” sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is...

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