The Economics of German Reunification

• leçon - matière potentielle : for transition
• leçon - matière potentielle : from eastern emigration

The Economics of German Reunification A slightly longer version of the entry prepared for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics by Jennifer Hunt McGill University and NBER February 2006 I am very grateful to Michael Burda, Wendy Carlin, Adam Posen and Harald Uhlig for helpful discussions, and to Karl Brenke, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Joachim Ragnitz and Werner Smolny for generously and quickly providing me with data.

• east germany
• eastern state
• financial implications of the government
• capital versus labour
• western products
• wage increases
• gdp per capita
• west
• unemployment rates