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Daniel Bendel / Markus Demary / Manfred Jäger-Ambrożewicz IW-Trends No. 3 25. September 2013 Business Cycle Analysis with an Equilibrium Model for the German Economy
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Business Cycle Analysis with an Equilibrium Model for the German Economy
Daniel Bendel / Markus Demary / Manfred Jäger-Ambrożewicz IW-Trends No. 3 25. September 2013

Business Cycle Analysis with an Equilibrium Model for the German Economy

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German Economic Institute (IW) German Economic Institute (IW)

Controversy rages as to whether the recession in Germany in 2009 was caused by a slump in world trade or by a supply shock due to the problems in the banking sector. According to the new DSGE model developed by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW Köln) the severe downturn in the German economy was triggered by both declining foreign demand and a drop in productivity. However, the productivity shock can also be ex-plained by surplus capacity and declining investment activity. To this extent, therefore, it also reflects a demand shock, though, due to their structure, the DSGE models cannot adequately describe this.

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Business Cycle Analysis with an Equilibrium Model for the German Economy
Daniel Bendel / Markus Demary / Manfred Jäger-Ambrożewicz IW-Trends No. 3 25. September 2013

Daniel Bendel / Markus Demary / Manfred Jäger-Ambrożewicz: Konjunkturanalyse mit einem Gleichgewichtsmodell für die deutsche Wirtschaft

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

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Hubertus Bardt / Michael Grömling in Advances in Resilient and Sustainable Transport External Publication 30. March 2023

Supply Chains, Cost and Investments in Times of Multiple Crises

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has significantly clouded the economic outlook in Germany and worsened the investment climate. The investment gap created in the wake of the Covid pandemic will not be closed for the time being.

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