CESifo Forum 4/2005

Focus: Germany: Fifteen years after unification; Fifteen years after: East Germany revisited (Joachim Ragnitz); Small and medium-sized enterprises in East Germany: Status and outlook (Norbert Irsch); Blooming landscapes in East Germany? (Michael Berlemann and Marcel Thum); Unification, reconstruction and federalist reform in Germany (Klaus von Dohnanyi); Why Germany needs structural reform (Eckhard Wurzel); Much ado about little: The fiscal impact of German economic unification (Adam S. Posen) Special: Pension and medicost reform - averting the demoghaphic/fiscal demise (Laurence J. Kotlikoff); International comparison of labour disputes and structural change (Hagen Lesch); Spotlights: A new flood of petro-dollars?; The best markets for business finance