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Growth Rate of German Economy Normalizing after Prolonged Economic Boom: DIW Economic Outlook

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  • Claus Michelsen
  • Christian Breuer
  • Martin Bruns
  • Max Hanisch
  • Simon Junker
  • Thore Schlaak

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The German economy continues to perform well although the boom has ended. However, at 1.5 percent, German GDP will increase this year at a lower rate than expected at the beginning of the year. Nevertheless, concerns about an imminent recession should give way to the assessment that the pace of the German economy is normalizing after years of above-average growth due to robust foreign demand and increasing employment levels. A gradual reduction in high capacity utilization will be accompanied by lower GDP growth; in the short term, however, this will be overshadowed by catch-up effects in the automotive industry following production and delivery problems and by the fiscal income boosts at the beginning of 2019, the most important being reduced social security contributions.

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  • Claus Michelsen & Christian Breuer & Martin Bruns & Max Hanisch & Simon Junker & Thore Schlaak, 2018. "Growth Rate of German Economy Normalizing after Prolonged Economic Boom: DIW Economic Outlook," DIW Weekly Report, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 8(50/51/52), pages 510-513.
    • Handle: RePEc:diw:diwdwr:dwr8-50-3
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    Keywords

    Business cycle forecast; ecoomic outlook;

    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E66 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General Outlook and Conditions
    • F01 - International Economics - - General - - - Global Outlook

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