Lax monetary policy in the United States has been pointed out as one of the responsible factors behind the recent global crisis. Similar loose monetary conditions also prevailed in many European countries before the crisis and were argued to be among the accommodating factors behind the run-up...

International tätige Unternehmen sehen sich unterschiedlich restriktiven ökologischen Anforderungen gegenüber. Demgegenüber stehen Forderungen international agierender ökologischer Anspruchsgruppen, möglichst weltweit ein einheitliches ökologisches Vorgehen zu wählen. In diesem...

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict costs and second by looking at the existing body of...