This cumulative dissertation consists of five chapters. In terms of research content, my thesis can be divided into two parts. Part one examines local interactions and spillover effects between small regional governments using spatial econometric methods. The second part focuses on patterns...

Organizational ambidexterity wurde kürzlich als "heisses Thema" innerhalb der Strategieforschung bezeichnet (Birkinshaw and Gupta, 2014: 2). Es definiert sich als die Fähigkeit einer Firma gleichzeitig exploration und exploitation durchzuführen (Gupta et al., 2006) und hat sich als "neues...

This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...