Germany: Selected Issues

October 31, 2002

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Germany: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 27, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines Germany’s growth record in 1992–2001 and analyzes how future performance might be enhanced. The paper focuses on the longer-term strains on the public finances. It reviews Germany’s external competitiveness, which deteriorated substantially in the wake of unification, and concludes that, by the beginning of the current decade, competitiveness had been largely restored. The paper also examines the recent slowdown in credit, which has gone beyond what might be expected on cyclical grounds.

Subject: Expenditure, Financial institutions, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Insurance, Labor, Labor markets

Keywords: CR, Credit growth, Credit-risk variable, Eastern Europe, Europe, Exchange rate appreciation, Germany, Global, Health care, Health care spending, Insurance, ISCR, Labor markets, Pass-through effect, TFP growth

Publication Details

Pages:

131
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2002/240
Stock No:

1DEUEA0022002
ISBN:

9781451810431
ISSN:

1934-7685

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