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Mehr Zuwanderung: So kann Deutschland auf den Fachkräftemangel reagieren

Oct 14, 2024 | tagesspiegel.de | Moritz Schularick

© dpa/Monika Skolimowska Statt monatelanger Prüfungen sollten Ausländer, die in einem globalen Online-Test ihre Fähigkeiten zeigen, direkt eine befristete Arbeitserlaubnis erhalten, meint der Präsident des Kiel Instituts für Weltwirtschaft. Ein Gastbeitrag von Moritz Schularick Heute, 12:28 UhrDer demografische Wandel kommt, die Arbeitskräfte werden immer weniger. Für Deutschland entsteht daraus ein großes Problem, das den Wohlstand bedroht.
So kann Deutschland auf den Fachkr√§ftemangel reagieren

Oct 10, 2024 | handelsblatt.com | Moritz Schularick
Episode 113: A Geoeconomic Europe?

Sep 25, 2024 | americangerman.institute | Jeff Rathke |Moritz Schularick |Peter S. Rashish

President of AGI Jeffrey Rathke is the President of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. Prior to joining AICGS, Jeff was a senior fellow and deputy director of the Europe Program at CSIS, where his work focused on transatlantic relations and U.S. security and defense policy. Jeff joined CSIS in 2015 from the State Department, after a 24-year career as a Foreign Service Officer, dedicated primarily to U.S. relations with Europe.
Exportweltmeister: Germany’s Foreign Investment Returns in International Comparison

Mar 15, 2024 | ifw-kiel.de | Moritz Schularick |Christoph Trebesch

Publication Date In the past decade, Germany has been the world champion in exporting capital (“Exportweltmeister”). No other country invested larger amounts of savings outside its borders. However, we find that Germany plays in the third division when it comes to investment performance. To show this, we construct a comprehensive new database on the returns on foreign investment for 13 advanced economies back to the 1970s.
Lying flat: the end of the Chinese boom and the consequences for Europe

Nov 30, 2023 | ifw-kiel.de | Moritz Schularick

Europe and Germany have to shift perspective: not the strength but the weakness of the Chinese economy will be a central challenge going forward. The current discourse in Europe is rife with unease about China's growing economic clout and strategies to deal with it. Yet the mood in Beijing is very different.
The power of substitution: The Great German Gas debate in retrospect

Sep 27, 2023 | brookings.edu | Benjamin Moll |Moritz Schularick |Georg Zachmann

Editor's note: The paper summarized here is part of the fall 2023 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the leading conference series and journal in economics for timely, cutting-edge research about real-world policy issues. Research findings are presented in a clear and accessible style to maximize their impact on economic understanding and policymaking. The editors are Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellows Janice Eberly and Jón Steinsson.
IfW cuts growth forecast

Sep 6, 2023 | newsunrolled.com | Moritz Schularick

Germany’s gross domestic product is expected to develop weaker than expected. The Kiel Institute of World Economy lowered its growth forecast. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), prospects for the German economy have blurred. The research institute expects economic output to decrease by 0.5 percent in its autumn forecast. Therefore, the summer forecast (-0.3 percent) was revised downward.
Schularik: High interest rates expose German growth deficits

Jul 27, 2023 | ifw-kiel.de | Moritz Schularick

"The European Central Bank (ECB) continues to make economic history. After the historically exceptional zero interest rate phase of more than 6 years, the drastic speed of the key interest rate rises within just one year to now 4.25 percent is also historically exceptional. The ECB has effectively shown its teeth in the fight against inflation, with the inflation rate roughly halved from its peak.
" L’Allemagne de 2023 est un pays qui cherche anxieusement à conserver son ancien modèle économique "

Jul 7, 2023 | lemonde.fr | Moritz Schularick

Il y a une vingtaine d’années, beaucoup considéraient l’Allemagne comme l’homme malade de l’Europe. Plombée par les coûts budgétaires d’une réunification mal gérée, elle enregistrait une croissance poussive et un taux de chômage élevé. Le malaise économique était si sévère qu’il a fini par générer un consensus politique autour de la nécessité de réformes structurelles.