Matthias Diermeier / Markos Jung / Pekka Sagner Interactive Graphic 18. May 2018

Convergence in Europe: The poorer regions are not catching up anymore

Before the economic crisis, European regions with low economic output per inhabitant grew faster than the wealthier ones. The living conditions on the continent became more similar. Since 2010, however, the process of catching-up has been stopped.

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Growth and Business Cycle

Development of the Competitive pressure from China on the EU market

This report examines whether China's exports are increasingly penetrating those sectors in which the German economy has its strengths. To investigate this question, the changes in China's and Germany's shares of EU imports are analysed descriptively over the ...

Hubertus Bardt / Michael Grömling IW-Trends No. 2 16. June 2023

Effects of Public Investment on Companies in Germany – Results of the IW Business Survey

Weak public investment activity in Germany has contributed to the low productivity growth of the last decades. Even maintaining the contribution to growth of state-owned capital stock at the already low level of the 1990s would have required an additional ...