This Policy Brief introduces the Gini Trade Index (GTI) as a new trade synthetic key performance indicator capable of capturing the different distribution of trade values across firm characteristics and across countries. The new indicator replicates the well-known features of the traditional...

The Brussels Effect, once emblematic of the EU's alleged influence in shaping global regulations, has now become a factor contributing to global regulatory fragmentation. The EU must recalibrate its trajectory towards a liberal and rules-based trading order, prioritizing widespread regulatory...

This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

In bis zu 85 % sind menschliche Fehler der Hauptgrund für Unfälle im Seeverkehr. Situationsbewusstsein (SB) ist die Hauptursache dieser Fehler. In den meisten Fällen kann fehlerhaftes SB auf zwei Fakten zurückgeführt werden: Es waren zu viele oder zu wenige Informationen vorhanden. In...