German Economic Review

Fact and Fiction in EU-Governmental Economic Data
Bernhard Rauch, Max Göttsche, Gernot Brhler and Stefan Engel

The 2008 GEA Journal-Ranking for the Economics Profession
Friedrich Schneider and Heinrich W. Ursprung

Public Expenditures on Education and Cultural Affairs in the West German States: Does Government Ideology Influence the Budget Composition?
Niklas Potrafke

Which News Moves the Euro Area Bond Market?
Magnus Andersson, Lars Jul Overby, Szabolcs Sebestyén

Non-Linear Oil Price Dynamics: A Tale of Heterogeneous Speculators?
Stefan Reitz, Ulf Slopek

Publish or perish? The increasing importance of publications for prospective economics professors in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
Michael Graber, Andrey Launov, Klaus Wälde

(Most cited articles published in 2008, 2009 and 2010.)

Special Issue on the Economics of Crime
Volume 13, Issue 4, November 2012
Guest Editors: Horst Entorf, Jens Ludwig, Christian Traxler
This Special Issue compiles six innovative empirical studies on the economics of crime. They distinguish themselves from much of the work on crime topics in other social science disciplines by their focus on randomized or ‘natural’ experiments to identify causal relationships between potential determinants of crime and criminal behavior, or between crime and its potential social consequences. Read the Special Issue Editorial in full here, and view the full Special Issue table of contents here.

Future Special Issue on the Economic Effects of Minimum Wages in Germany
Guest Editors:Sandra Schaffner, Christoph M. Schmidt
The next German Economic Review Special Issue will be on the Economic Effects of Minimum Wages in Germany. This is scheduled to be published in 2013. Register for German Economic Review New Content Alerts and receive an automated (and free) table of content alert when every issue of GER publishes online - including this forthcoming Special Issue. Simply click on 'Get New Content Alerts' in the top left JOURNAL TOOLS menu.

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