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    <title>"Harmonizing Europe's business cycles at no additional cost": Six questions to Ferdinand Fichtner</title>
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    <description>Title: "Harmonizing Europe's business cycles at no additional cost": Six questions to Ferdinand Fichtner
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Fichtner, Ferdinand; Wittenberg, Erich</description>
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    <title>German cities to see further rises in housing prices and rents in 2013</title>
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    <description>Title: German cities to see further rises in housing prices and rents in 2013
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Over the past few years, prices and rents for flats went up in most German cities. This trend is expected to continue in 2013. Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Frankfurt am Main will still see the highest increases in property prices and rents. In these cities, housing prices are rising much faster than rents. By contrast, stagnating or even falling prices are forecast for the cities in the Ruhr area.</description>
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    <title>Has income inequality spiked in Germany?</title>
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    <description>Title: Has income inequality spiked in Germany?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan; Schupp, Jürgen
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: New analyses of personal income distribution in Germany, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), show that real market income in private households rose significantly from 2005 to 2010. An increase in real disposable income was also observed. At the same time, income inequality decreased in both western and eastern Germany. However, the latter showed a further spread at the lower end of disposable income distribution. In the course of this development, the poverty risk in western Germany fell slightly from 2009 to 2010, while it remained unchanged in the eastern part of the country.</description>
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    <description>Title: Industrial development: France and Germany drifting apart
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Brenke, Karl
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The significance of the manufacturing sector for the economies of both the European Union and the euro area has declined dramatically over the past ten years. However, development varied between the individual member states, which is particularly evident in a comparison between France and Germany. The manufacturing industry in Germany was able to maintain its position within the national economy, halting the structural change towards the service sector. Conversely, there has been rapid deindustrialization in France: here, value added from the manufacturing sector as a percentage of the overall economy is now even lower than in eastern Germany. Within the German industrial sector, the manufacture of technically complex goods has continued to gain ground. In France, on the other hand, the production of such goods has always been relatively insignificant and, over the last decade, has become even less important. The gap between these two countries is also widening with regard to wage development as well as price competitiveness: in Germany, wage growth has lagged behind increases in production, whereas in France salaries have increased at a much faster pace than production. German manufacturing was, therefore, able to expand substantially into foreign markets, while the French industrial sector is the poorest performing in the EU. If national currencies had been retained, the ramifications of such diverging developments would have been mitigated through exchange rate adjustments. Meanwhile, a currency union requires responsible policies-this also applies to wage development.</description>
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