• Economic Outlook for Switzerland: Expectations Less Pessimistic
• Current Economic Situation: Still Declining
• Inflation Expectations: No Change Expected
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The ongoing economic criticism of the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) recently started focusing on distributional effects, too. A team of authors at the Cologne Institute for Economic Research is worried about…

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One of grand challenges which are faced by Russia today is to deregulate its gas market while favouring longer-term growth of economy. From the mid-2000s onwards, the key component of the reforms has become…

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The minimum wage in the roofing sector, which was introduced in 1997 and transferred to a national and generally binding level in 2003, has particularly affected the sector in Eastern Germany, even in an…

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Book-tax conformity is an old issue in Germany. For more than one hundred years the determination of corporate taxable income has been characterized by the so-called Maßgeblichkeitsprinzip, which governs the…

During recent decades European antitrust authorities have increasingly focused on the fight against cartels within the European market. Numerous alterations in European competition law, such as leniency…