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Book Synopsis How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration with Micro Data by : Michael Funke
Download or read book How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration with Micro Data written by Michael Funke and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm-level efficiency.
Book Synopsis The Institutionalised Transformation of the East German Economy by : Sabine Spangenberg
Download or read book The Institutionalised Transformation of the East German Economy written by Sabine Spangenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is, perhaps, worth stressing that economic problems arise always and only in consequence of change. So long as things continue as before, or at least as they were expected to, there arise no new problems requiring a decision, no need to form a plan. " (Hayek, 1945, p. 523) This book is based on my research for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy which I received from Lancaster University, England in the second half of 1997. It is an analysis of the structural transformation of the economic system in East Germany and the behavioural relations these changes imply. The approach of institutionalised transformation (not the least by the creation of the Treuhandanstalt) is examined with a theory-based framework which is derived from system-theoretical, evolutionary and constitutional-ethical considerations as well as from the newly developed adjustment model which has been constructed as a dynamic transformation approach. A relationship between norm changes, the new institutional framework of the economic system and the compatibility of the latter with changes of the remaining partial societal systems is recognised. Rigidity factors in the system's flexibility to react as well as the adjustment of economic behaviour to structural changes are analysed. The "marginal product of system change" is defined (section 2. 8. 2).
Download or read book The East German Economy written by and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1964 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Exercise in Futility by : Albrecht Ritschl
Download or read book An Exercise in Futility written by Albrecht Ritschl and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Structure of the East German Economy by : Wolfgang F. Stolper
Download or read book The Structure of the East German Economy written by Wolfgang F. Stolper and published by Cambridge, Harvard U.P. This book was released on 1960 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The East German Economy, 1945-2010 by : Hartmut Berghoff
Download or read book The East German Economy, 1945-2010 written by Hartmut Berghoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.
Book Synopsis Basic Data on the Economy of East Germany by : James Ellis
Download or read book Basic Data on the Economy of East Germany written by James Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economics of German Unification by : A. Ghanie Ghaussy
Download or read book The Economics of German Unification written by A. Ghanie Ghaussy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German unification is proving much more difficult than was originally envisaged. The integration of two national economies with different economic orders, different sectoral structures and divergent levels of development seems set to take a long time. This timely examination of the major issues involved emphasises the impact of unification on diffe
Book Synopsis Economic Aspects of German Unification by : Paul J.J. Welfens
Download or read book Economic Aspects of German Unification written by Paul J.J. Welfens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul J. J. Welfens The editor is pleased to present a second edition of Economic Aspects of German Unification which includes new chapters and several postscripts. Almost five years after unification output in the ex-GDR is back to its 1989 level. Due to a massive intra-German resource transfer consumption per capita in eastern Germany has not fallen as much as output and employment which reduced by one-fifth within three years. Given high West German transfers which represented about 5% of West German GDP and more than 50% of East German GDP the fall of industrial output could have been much stronger than had politically been feasible. Hence structural change necessary for productivity growth was dramatic in the ex-GDR where the goods producing sector (manufacturing, mining, energy and construction) strongly changed its proportions; within four years construction almost doubled, and the share of investment goods production reduced by 10 percentage points between 1990 and 1994 and is· now down to 21. 1 %. Mining lost two-thirds of its share in the producing sector which itself was reduced relative to GDP. The share of the services industry increased by 5 percentage points between 1991 and 1994, but with a share of 27. 7% in East Germany's GDP it was still about 9 percentage points lower than in western Germany. By contrast, government accounted for 20. 9% of GDP in eastern Germany, but for only 13. 2% in western Germany.
Book Synopsis East Germany in Comparative Perspective by : Thomas A. Baylis
Download or read book East Germany in Comparative Perspective written by Thomas A. Baylis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new decade begins the popular demand for change has meant that the social and political fabric of the the Eastern Bloc countries has been irrevocably altered. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the key political, economic and social areas of East German society, such as the military and the church, areas which will intrinsically involved with the movement for change.
Book Synopsis Socialism with a Human Face by : Gary B. Magee
Download or read book Socialism with a Human Face written by Gary B. Magee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Germany’s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system’s inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many who lived there, it was a system that, over its forty years, was capable of achievements and generally functioned at bearable levels. This book combines the insights of behavioural economics with archival research to peel away layers of rhetoric and assumptions about the East German economy and explore aspects of that underlying functionality. Through a series of cases studies that examine the establishment of socialist workplaces, the searches for productivity growth and efficiency, and the emergence of financial crisis, the book considers the system from the perspective of the humans who operated it and made the decisions that made it work. Unencumbered by political preconceptions, it offers a more realistic understanding of East German economic history than that derived from stagnant debates about the clash of systems. The new perspectives and approaches presented demonstrate that, extracted from its Cold War context, East Germany’s economic history can be analysed for what it was, rather than for what it symbolised.
Book Synopsis Planning Ahead and Falling Behind by : Jaap Sleifer
Download or read book Planning Ahead and Falling Behind written by Jaap Sleifer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Für diese Untersuchung wurde dem Autor am 13. 9. 2007 der René Kuczynski-Preis für herausragende Publikationen auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte verliehen. Der Autor definiert die Wirtschaftsleistung Ostdeutschlands im Vergleich zu Westdeutschland neu. Dazu zieht er in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur vorliegende Berechnungen und eigene Schätzungen heran. Zum einen bestimmt er die Wirtschaftsleistung für die Stichjahre 1936 und 1954 neu, um den Einfluss der Startbedingungen abschätzen zu können. Außerdem berechnet er die Produktion der Industrie und ihrer Branchen auf Basis physischer Angaben für den Zeitraum 1936-1991 sowie darauf aufbauend das gesamte Bruttoinlandsprodukt Ostdeutschlands neu. Die erzielten Ergebnisse sind innovativ und erweitern unser Wissen über Niveau und Entwicklung der Wirtschaft auf dem Gebiet der DDR. Es handelt sich um die derzeit beste, breiteste, fundierteste Berechnung der Wirtschaftsentwicklung der DDR, und zwar im Vergleich mit Westdeutschland.
Book Synopsis Restructuring the East-German Economy by : E. M. Verkade
Download or read book Restructuring the East-German Economy written by E. M. Verkade and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economic Efficiency and Political Constraints - The Dilemma of Privatization in Eastern Germany by : Patrick Avato
Download or read book Economic Efficiency and Political Constraints - The Dilemma of Privatization in Eastern Germany written by Patrick Avato and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: A-, Johns Hopkins University (School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)), course: West European Political Economies, language: English, abstract: Firstly, as typical for a centrally planned socialist economy, the great majority of productive capacity belonged to the state. Large, state owned enterprises (Volkseigene Betriebe), often grouped into huge industrial conglomerates (Kombinate), made up 80.7 percent of total assets. Cooperative property accounted for another 14.7 percent in March 1990. Private property merely amounted to 4.7 percent of economic resources and was confined to small-scale businesses, restaurants, and craft shops. Employment was consequently almost entirely in the hand of the state leaving only about 2 percent of the workforce independently employed (Merkl 1994, p. 200). Also, the structure of the GDR economy differed largely from its western counterpart. Employment was heavily concentrated in sectors and branches that had actually been declining in the West. The production was skewed towards agriculture, energy, mining and manufacturing, which together accounted for 47 percent of employment in the GDR (37 percent in the BRD) (Lange and Pugh 1998, p. 32). As shown in table 1 agriculture, forestry and fishery, energy and mining as well as textiles and clothing employed almost 18 percent of the GDR’s workforce in contrast to 7 percent in West Germany. Further differences appeared in the service and trade sector which, by Western standards, was rather underdeveloped in the GDR. [...]
Book Synopsis Efficiency and Structural Change in East German Economic Planning, 1976-1985 by : Maurice Nyberg
Download or read book Efficiency and Structural Change in East German Economic Planning, 1976-1985 written by Maurice Nyberg and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis East German Productivity and the Transition to the Market Economy by : D. M. W. N. Hitchens
Download or read book East German Productivity and the Transition to the Market Economy written by D. M. W. N. Hitchens and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the first application to a former communist bloc economy of the technique of detailed matched plant comparisons. It is of special note that the factory visits to East German plants occurred close to the start of the German monetary and economic union. As such, the authors have been able to elucidate both the performance of firms under the previous planning system and the beginnings of the transition to the market economy. Careful benchmark measures of the level of productivity in east German plants compared to counterparts in West Germany are provided (in June 1990 and June 1991). Rates of growth of output per head are indicated and sources of previous and likely future improvements reviewed. The competitive strengths and weaknesses of the firms are discussed. Attention is also given to such factors as product standards, the impact of environmental regulation, switches from Eastern European to Western markets and the suitability of premises. Firms which are judged as likely to survive the transition to the market economy are identified and further examined. The explanations of the East German firms' comparatively low level of productivity are considered; particularly the role of physical and human capital. Various aspects of the machine stock are described; e.g. comparative age, level of technology, country of origin, balance, appropriateness, viability (given various levels of labour costs) and ease of maintenance. The number and quality of skilled persons at various levels of hierarchy are measured. The strategies adopted to supplement East German skills with West German know-how are described. Implications for industrial and regional policy in Germany are drawn. There is also an attempt to apply lessons to other low productivity economies in Eastern Europe and in the EC (particular attention is given in this respect to the case of Northern Ireland).
Book Synopsis East and West Germany: a Comparative Economic Analysis by : Martin Schnitzer
Download or read book East and West Germany: a Comparative Economic Analysis written by Martin Schnitzer and published by Irvington Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparison of Germany, Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, based on a comparative economic analysis of each country's economic system, economy and economic structures - covers the organization of industry and agriculture, public finance, income distribution, banking, trade unions, standard of living, etc. References and statistical tables.
