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German labour costs

By Torsten Niechoj On 2016/01/28
Labour costs in Germany are high. Any child can tell you that. Simultaneously,  Germany achieves trade balance and current account surpluses year by year and it seems that the economy does not suffer from high export prices. How is this possible? A current publication by the Macroeconomic Policy Institute offers an answer. The German version [...]
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New issue of EJEEP (December 2015)

By Torsten Niechoj On 2016/01/20
In December, the newest issue of EJEEP, the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, went online. Print copies should be available now at libraries that subscribed to the journal. This issue’s free article on ‘Will “structural reforms” of labour markets reduce productivity growth? A firm-level investigation’ provides empirical evidence for a negative relationship [...]
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A stand-up comedian’s view on the Eurozone crisis

By Torsten Niechoj On 2015/10/28
If you are interested in the rare combination of academic presentation and stand-up comedy watch Mark Blyth’s talk on ‘Policies to Avert Stagnation: The Crisis and the Future(s) of the Euro’ at the 19th International FMM Conference. He starts at 9:28 in the livestream of the third plenary session.
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New issue of EJEEP

By Torsten Niechoj On 2015/10/27
Issue 2-2015 of the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP) is now available online and in print. It documents the papers of the plenary sessions of the 18th International FMM Conference in 2014 (hyperlink includes videos of the plenary speakers). I would like to highlight the contributions by Jonathan D. Ostry on [...]
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Lecture on the Euro debt crisis

By Torsten Niechoj On 2014/04/04
As part of the Campus opening of Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Kamp-Lintfort (Germany) I gave a presentation on the Euro debt crisis which can be donwloaded here (in German).
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