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German unification and the ‘market adoption’ hypothesis

John Hall and Udo Ludwig

John Hall is Professor of Economics and International Studies Portland State University
Udo Ludwig is Senior Research Fellow Institute for Economic Research Halle, Germany

Abstract

‘Market adoption’ is often blamed for inducing precipitous decline in East Germany's comparatively inefficient economy. Government transfers and private sector investments contributed toward income and investment equalisation between the east and west of Germany. But the price East Germany paid for unification was the transfer out of vast portions of the regional stock of wealth: as productive assets, forests, farms, and property; by the outmigration of the technical work force, and by the liquidation of the regional scientific potential, features which may well limit eastern Germany's recovering historical losses relative to western Germany.

Manuscript received May 31, 1993; final version received September 14, 1994.


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