Recovering From an Economic Hangover: Lessons and Prescriptions for Transatlantic Cooperation
Issue Brief 38 Two years after the financial and economic crisis began in the United States and shortly thereafter spread to Europe and Germany, the subsequent economic downturn continues to …
Intellectual Property Rights and Green Technology Transfer: German and U.S. Perspectives
Policy Report 45 While environmental concerns have recently taken a backseat to the economic and financial crisis, scientific projections on climate change continue to call for action. Yet, international cooperation …
Promoting Energy Innovation and Investment Through Transatlantic Transfer of Community Energy Policies
Policy Report 43 In Policy Report #43, “Promoting Energy Innovation and Investment Through Transatlantic Transfer of Community Energy Policies,” Dale Medearis, Peter Garforth, and Stefan Blüm look to the European …
Anything But SWIFT: Why Data Sharing is Still a Problem for the EU
Issue Brief 35 The fight against terrorism has been on the forefront of the U.S. and German agendas and shapes the relationship between both countries. While cooperation has been strong, …
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Support Our WorkThe Awakening of the East: Economic Development in the Eastern Federal States
In this Transatlantic Perspectives essay, Dr. Klaus Deutsch and Sascha Brok use the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as an opportunity to look at the development of the eastern states, and write that despite a rosy outlook, much work remains to improve economic conditions, especially when it comes to unemployment and overall quality of life.
What Happened to the Blooming Landscapes?
In this Transatlantic Perspectives essay, AICGS Senior Non-Resident Fellow Dr. Jennifer Hunt, Professor of Economics at McGill University, examines why sustained economic growth in eastern Germany has proved elusive despite transfers of €1 trillion from western Germany. Dr. Hunt writes that the puzzle of this discrepancy is whether the stalled convergence with western Germany is related to initial policy mistakes, to shortcomings in current policies, or to emigration.
‘They Can and Must Increase’: An Analysis of U.S.-Russian Economic Relations in International Comparison
Issue Brief 31 In Issue Brief 31, “‘They Can and Must Increase’: An Analysis of U.S.-Russian Economic Relations in International Comparison,” Deutsche Bank/AGI Fellow Dr. Thorsten Nestmann analyzes the low …
The Transatlantic Agenda for Labor Market Reform: Increasing Adaptability Through Continuing Training
Former DAAD/AICGS Fellow Tobias Schulze-Cleven writes that the current global economic crisis presents an opportunity to rethink economic policy priorities in both the United States and Germany. In his essay “The Transatlantic Agenda for Labor Market Reform: Increasing Adaptability Through Continuing Training,” Mr. Schulze-Cleven suggests that the countries use this opportunity to reexamine their respective continuing training programs as a way to provide workforce security for both good and bad economic times, using the example provided by Denmark’s continuing training programs as a model for going forward.
Comparing German and American Models in Skill Formation
The current economic crisis has brought commitments of considerable government support for education in the recovery packages of both the United States and Germany, writes former DAAD/AICGS Fellow Dr. Justin J.W. Powell, Senior Research Fellow at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. When enacting new reforms, Dr. Powell argues, both countries can continue to learn from the other’s successes and failures as a way to develop skill formation systems far beyond what each country could have accomplished alone.
Miracles are Possible
In light of the current economic crisis, Americans sometimes wonder why Germany, the world exporting champion, is not taking more action to spur on its economy. Dr. Tim Stuchtey, Senior Fellow and Director of the Business and Economics Program at AICGS, writes that to understand Germany’s actions (or lack thereof), one must understand the concept of Ordnungspolitik and how it has shaped Germany’s economic policy over the past sixty years. In his essay, Dr. Stuchtey gives an overview of Ordnungspolitik and suggests ways how this concept can help to end the current crisis.
The German Model of Labor Relations at Sixty
When the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in May 1949, a major cornerstone of its cooperative and stable system of labor relations was already in place. Over a month earlier, the Collective Agreements Act had come into effect, and
to this day, virtually unchanged, it has been the foundation upon which trade unions and employers’ associations have autonomously set the standards for wages and working conditions in contracts negotiated at the sectoral level (Flächentarifvertrag)…
