CESifo Forum

2005

CESifo Forum 4/2005

Focus: Germany: Fifteen years after unification; Fifteen years after: East Germany revisited (Joachim Ragnitz); Small and medium-sized enterprises in East Germany: Status and outlook (Norbert Irsch); Blooming landscapes in East Germany? (Michael Berlemann and Marcel Thum); Unification, reconstruction and federalist reform in Germany (Klaus von Dohnanyi); Why Germany needs structural reform (Eckhard Wurzel); Much ado about little: The fiscal impact of German economic unification (Adam S. Posen) Special: Pension and medicost reform - averting the demoghaphic/fiscal demise (Laurence J. Kotlikoff); International comparison of labour disputes and structural change (Hagen Lesch); Spotlights: A new flood of petro-dollars?; The best markets for business finance

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2005

Language of publication English

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CESifo Forum 3/2005 (Autumn)

Focus: China - The new global player: The Chinese economy: How much market � how much state? (Markus Taube); Embracing the dragon: Can the EU and China be friends? (Katinka Barysch, with Charles Grant and Mark Leonhard); On the renminbi (Jeffrey Frankel); Whose afraid of a renminbi float? (David Altig); Is revaluation of the renminbi good news? (Vanessa Rossi); The Chinese challenge to the EU (Gabriele Roubal, H.-G�nther Vieweg, Markus Taube); The giant graduates: China�s strive for high-technology (Sonja Opper); China�s growing importance for German investment (Rainer Frey); Pro & Contra: Proposals for a tax reform in Germany: In favour of a flat tax (Paul Kirchhof); For a dual income tax (Wolfgang Wiegard); Special: Fiscal policy and fiscal rules in the European Union (Vito Tanzi); Spotlights: Elasticity asymmetry in the United States; Norway and the EU � It is expensive to be a non-member; Trends: Statistics update

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2005

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Article number 11132005003000

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CESifo Forum 2/2005 (Summer)

Introduction: Europe and the Lisbon Goals: Are we halfway there? (Christian Ude; J�rgen Chrobog; Hans-Werner Sinn; Edmund Stoiber; Wim Kok); Panel 1: Speeding up European Reform: A Master Plan for the Lisbon Process (Jean Pisani-Ferry; Otmar Issing; Edward G. Krubasik; J�nos K�ka; Arend Oetker; Ernst Schwanhold; G�nther Beckstein; Vaira Vike-Freiberga); Panel 2: European and National Champions: Burden or Blessing? (Paul Seabright; Wolfgang Ziebart; Lars Pettersson; Eric LeBoucher; Rainer Frank Els�sser); Panel 2: Closing Remarks (Hans-Werner Sinn); Trends: Statistic Updates

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2005

Language of publication English

Article number 11132005002000

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