With the “Zeitenwende” in security policy and a significant increase in defense spending, calls for industrial policy measures to strengthen the domestic arms industry are growing louder. However, little attention is being paid to the role of competition policy. This article first reconstructs the specific characteristics of arms markets and…

This article examines the development of the HWWI-Rohstoffpreisindex in 2025. The analysis focuses on the price dynamics of Germany’s key imported raw materials and the contributions of individual commodity groups. The overall decline of the index during 2025 was largely driven by price movements in energy commodities, whose prices remained…

The German economy is waiting for the economic turnaround. As in the first half of 2025, real gross domestic product (GDP) stagnated in the third quarter. A difficult international environment and the new government’s rather tentative implementation of reforms continued to slow economic development. The US tariff dispute dragged on…