Bei der Altersvorsorge von Privatanlegern ergibt sich in der derzeitigen Marktsituation die Frage nach der Einführung von Anlageprodukten mit Garantien. Garantien können sich auf das Kapital oder auf eine Mindestrendite beziehen. Produktvarianten können Fonds oder Zertifikate sein. Aus Furcht...

1. Introduction / Uwe Becker -- 2. Institutional change in the BRICs, Eastern Europe, South Africa and Turkey, 1998-2008 / Uwe Becker -- 3. The evolution and contemporary manifestations of Sino-capitalism / Christopher A. McNally -- 4. Continuity and change in Indian capitalism / Surajit...

"In the past ten to twenty years the global political economy picture has dramatically changed with the emergence of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and, notably, China (BRICs) as big players and competitors of the advanced economies in the West and Eastern Asia. The book comparatively...

How to indicate institutional diversity and gradual change in capitalist political economies? What is the appropriate typological method, how could a suitable typology look? In the Weberian tradition, this article pleads for a method that rigorously distinguishes ideal types from empirical...

In Foreign Exchange Markets vanilla and barrier options are traded frequently. The market standard is a cutoff time of 10:00 a.m. in New York for the strike of vanillas and a knock-out event based on a continuously observed barrier in the inter bank market. However, many clients, particularly...

This important volume sheds light on a group of smaller European countries, often overlooked in economic discussions, that share a high degree of corporatism-Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The contributors to this book investigate the...