2025 marks the 35th anniversary of German reunification. A central chapter in this history is the work of the Treuhandanstalt, the government agency which decided in the early 1990s which GDR companies should be privatised and which should be closed...

[ri_authors title=”Authors”] [ri_author name=”Albrecht Glitz” aff=”RFBerlin” photo_url=”https://www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Albrecht-Glitz.jpg” ] [ri_author name=”Dr. Kohaut” aff=”IAB” photo_url=”https://www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Unbenannt.png”] [ri_author name=”Dr. Möller” aff=”IAB” photo_url=”https://www.rfberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Unbenannt-1.png”] [/ri_authors] Reference This report is based on the IAB Kurzbericht “Neun Prozent der Betriebe werden ausgespäht”/”Nine percent of businesses fall victim to espionage”...

Authors Guido Friebel(Goethe University Frankfurt and RFBerlin) Casper Berg Lavmand Larsen(Copenhagen Business School) Johannes Laust Reese Hansen(Rockwool Foundation) A newly conducted nationwide survey of cooperation committees and trade union representation provides entirely new insights into the landscape of co-determination institutions...

Authors Lukas Tohoff(ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin) Mario Mechtel(Leuphana University Lüneburg) While market values in professional soccer had surged over the past two decades, recent years have seen a marked stagnation. This report calculates inflation rates for soccer players’ market values in...