The first book in the Studies in Economic Transition series applies the theory of economic development to the economy of East Germany. Eight years after the unification of Germany, the book provides a comprehensive and much needed assessment of the transition process in the East, its impact on the German economy as a whole and the important broader lessons for European integration and enlargement. The unique economic experiment of the unification of the German economies provided an excellent opportunity for different schools of economic theory to be tested and examined. The contributors to this book take full advantage of this challenge.
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Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
PART I: THE GERMAN ECONOMY AND THE NEW LÄNDER
From Miracle to Crisis? The German Economy at the End of the 20th Century; K. Paqué
The German Model in Decline; J. Hölscher and J. Stephan
Economic Policy for the New German Länder - Supply Side Economics Needed; M. Hüther
PART II: MICROECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND PRIVATISATION
The Eastern Länder as a Transition Economy; M. Kaser
Determinants of Entrepreneurial Success in East Germany; M. Herzog
Private Property and the Transformation Process; W. Waldner
PART III: NEW INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC POLICY
Problems of the Welfare State and the New German Länder; J. Coop and R. Vis
The Institutional Architecture of an Alliance for Jobs; J. Bastian
Catching Up with the West: the Achievements and Limitations of Creative Destruction; T. Lange and G. Pugh
Economic Aspects of the German Unification - Lessons for European Integration; E. Smith
What Can We Learn from German Unification for European Integration - Some Conceptional Issues; A. Hochberg
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JENS HÖLSCHER is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Brighton.
ANJA HOCHBERG is a Lecturer in Economics at the European Business Management School, University of Wales, Swansea. From 1991 she studied economies at Berlin Free University where she obtained her degree in 1993. Then she continued her studies at the College of Europe Brugge where she obtained an MA and an DEEA in European Economic Studies. Since 1995 also being a doctoral candidate, her main research interests include regional policy and European economic integration.