Innovation in the United States and Germany: The Future
Policy Report 28 As mature, post-industrial economies, the United States and Germany confront a promising, if uncertain, future in the realm of innovation. How they approach that future—what they choose …
Innovation in the United States and Germany: Case Studies
As two pillars of the global economy, the status and future of applied innovation in the U.S.-German partnership constitutes a long term challenge to decision-makers on both sides of the Atlantic, albeit for slightly different, if convergent, reasons…
Boeing vs. Airbus: The WTO Dispute Neither Can Win
Issue Brief 14 In October 2004, the United States terminated the Agreement on Trade in Large Civil Aircraft it had signed with the EU in 1992. This agreement regulated the …
Women and Entrepreneurship in Germany
Issue Brief 12 The great Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter, argued that it is entrepreneurs, or ‘wild spirits,’ who inspire innovation and technological change in a nation. Schumpeter coined the German …
Why Germany Should Introduce Real Estate Investment Trusts Now
Issue Brief 11 On September 25, 2006 the German finance ministry unveiled draft legislation to introduce Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in Germany. According to an announcement by the finance …
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Policy Report 26 As economic ties between the United States and Germany have grown steadily deeper and more intertwined, economic performance in one country increasingly affects the transatlantic partnership as …
The EU Services Directive: Nightmare or Opportunity? Implications for Transatlantic Business
Policy Report 25 The EU Services Directive is likely to become Community law by the end of 2006, promising that, by the end of the decade, the EU will have …
Industrial Lobbying within the European Union: Actors, Strategies, and Trends in the Multi-Level System
Policy Report 24 Deepening transatlantic economic integration has brought mutual benefit to the United States and Europe, but it has also created new potential for transatlantic conflict… Download Publication
A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy? Data Protection in the United States and Germany
Policy Report 22 In the borderless world of the twenty-first century, global interconnectivity has never been greater. Through the use of millions of computers, billions of e-mails, and a level …
Corporate Governance in Flux: Assessing the Recent Round of Reforms in the United States and Germany
Policy Report 21 In 2004, the American-German Institute published an analysis by Sigurt Vitols and Thomas Kenyon, exploring the respective approaches of the United States and Germany toward corporate governance… …
European Energy Strategies After the Petroleum Age
Issue Brief 4 Securing the supply of energy is one of mankind’s basic needs. The exploitation of fossil fuels, (coal, petroleum, and more recently natural gas), has been one of …
European Growth Troubles: Divergences and Challenges in a Global Economy
Issue Brief 3 Disappointment with economic performance and slow growth was one important element behind the rejection of the EU constitution in France and in the Netherlands this spring. It …
