WEST GERMANY 1973-1989 AND UNIFIED GERMANY 1990-2022, AN ANALYSIS

Abstract

One of the most important events in the World after World War II was the reuniting of Germany, during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. The goal of the authors in this paper is to discuss the general economic conditions of West Germany before 1989 and Germany after 1989. In attempting to do that, we will in the introductory section present data and analysis for both East and West Germany for the years from World War II up until the time of reunification. The second section will present an evaluation of the economy of Germany since the reunification. In the third section a statistical model will be developed to show the general impact of the union on the German economy. In the fourth section, the authors will try to derive a conclusion as to whether the reunification was successful or not, and finally in the Appendix we are going to run several regression models in order to measure the impact of several indicators before and after 1989.