Roughly two thirds of the enterprises questioned by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research expect German economic development to remain weak. The differences between the main sectors of the economy and enterprise size are slight. Those firms which assume there will be secular stagnation see the reasons primarily on the supply side, citing the danger of a skills shortage and the costs of labour, energy and regulation, for instance. This suggests the need for an improvement in the business environment for the economy as a whole rather than a demand-side economic policy.
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 ...
Jürgen Matthes / Samina Sultan IW-Kurzbericht No. 29 25. April 2023
Reform of EU-fiscal rules: Lindner's ideas have merit
The German government's proposal to introduce a fixed limit on government spending growth for highly indebted member states in the course of the reform of the Stability and Growth Pact makes sense. Given the macroeconomic environment, such a minimum ...
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