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The article deals with the problem of ethical assessment of the liquidation of the GDR as a state structure and its integration into the political and economic space of the FRG.
V. A. Mironov
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The Beneficiary's Ownership Rights in the Trust Res in a Liberal Property Regime
This article argues that a liberal theory of property rights can help us resolve a century old debate about a foundational aspect of the trust, namely, the nature of the beneficiary's interest. According to orthodoxy, the beneficiary has a (weak form) of proprietary right to the trust res.
Hanoch Dagan, Irit Samet
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Once bitten, twice shy: The overgeneralization trap and epistemic learning after policy failure
Abstract Why do smart policy makers who try to learn from policy failure end up overgeneralizing these lessons when facing new crises? This article focuses on the policy learning that can come in the wake of perceived policy failure, and the consequences that lesson learning has for diagnosing and tackling subsequent crises.
Derek Beach, Sandrino Smeets
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Abstract In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational enterprises (MNEs) that were active in the Czech ...
Konstantin Koerner +2 more
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This article examines the crisis-ridden path from planned to market economy in Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. By analyzing the history of the highly debated Treuhandanstalt—the so-called Trust Agency and the main actor of the ...
Marcus Böick
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Abstract This article sheds light on one of the key developments in recent German politics and relates it to the broader debate on the electoral success of the far right. The rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany) is also a story about Germany’s internal political divide three decades after reunification, as the party ...
Manès Weisskircher
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Does low‐pay persist across different regimes? Evidence from German Unification
Abstract Using German administrative data, we study across‐regime low‐pay persistence in the context of an economic transformation process. We first show that individuals' initial allocation to the post‐unification low‐wage sector was close to random in terms of market‐regime unobservables.
Nicole Gürtzgen +1 more
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After 1989, commentators heralded the ultimate triumph of the capitalist market over its last major opponent, the socialist plan. However, crisis-ridden economic transformations in the former GDR and Eastern (Central) Europe were still to come.
Marcus Böick
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In the run-up to the Re-Unification of the East and West Germany in the 1990's the governments faced a problem, how do we integrate two political systems without causing a collapse of the economy and livelihoods.
Tim A. Beijer
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Polscy zarządcy powierniczy majątku żydowskiego - zarys problematyki.
Zagadnienie tzw. powiernictwa, czyli zarządzania mieniem skonfiskowanym podczas wojny na terenie Generalnej Guberni (GG) nie doczekało się jak dotąd żadnych naukowych opracowań.
Jan Grabowski
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