Alcuni istituti di ricerca in campo finanziario e macroeconmico si spingono a postulare un calo del PIL tedesco nell'ordine del 6% quest'anno, subendo una ulteriore contrazione il prossimo anno....
German Economy Will Shrink 6% This Year, Forecasters Say
By Tony Czuczka and Brian Parkin
April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Germany’s economy will shrink 6 percent this year and also contract in 2010 as the deepest recession since World War II worsens on plunging exports, the country’s leading economic forecasters said.
Europe’s largest economy will see its budget deficit jump to 3.7 percent of gross domestic product this year and to 5.5 percent in 2010, fueled by government stimulus spending and falling tax revenue, the leading economic institutes said in their half-yearly report today.
Germany will lose 1 million jobs this year, pushing the number of unemployed above 4 million, said the report released in Berlin. The jobless rate will rise to 10.8 percent next year with an average 4.7 million unemployed, the report said.
“In the spring of 2009, Germany finds itself in the deepest recession since the establishment of the federal republic,” the postwar German state founded in 1949, the report said. Gross domestic product will decline by 0.5 percent next year as the economy may head toward “stabilization,” it said.
Noting two fiscal stimulus programs agreed by Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s government since last fall, the report said those measures haven’t solved “the problems of the banking sector” that threaten to grow into a “full-blown credit squeeze” if they aren’t tackled as a priority.
Germany doesn’t need a third stimulus plan, the institutes said in their joint report, backing Merkel’s position. Instead, the government should increase pressure on banks and possibly “force them to accept state aid” or be nationalized as a last resort, the report said.
The institutes are: the Kiel-based IfW, the Essen-based RWI, Vienna’s Institute for Higher Studies; Munich’s Ifo, the Swiss Technical College, or ETH, in Zurich; and a group comprising IWH, Vienna-based Wifo and the labor union-affiliated IMK.