"This paper explores the structure of cross-border health purchasing between Austria and Hungary and determines the size of this phenomenon as well as the barriers to a further increase. Austrian patients may receive health care treatment in Hungary in three different ways. First, patients may...

In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, was Biosphere Reserves eigentlich sind?! Warum wurden sie gegründet? Wie werden sie verwaltet? Und was haben sie mit Nachhaltigkeit zu tun? Angesprochen sind alle, die in diesem Bereich arbeiten oder forschen, diese führen und verwalten, sowie Politikerinnen,...

Vorwörter -- Einführung -- Teil I: Aktuelle Erkenntnisse aus der Wissenschaft -- Teil II: Pläne und Maßnahmen der Politik -- Teil III: Forderungen von Interessensvertretungen, NGO´s und NPO´s -- Teil IV: Insights aus der Finanz- und Versicherungsbranche -- Teil VI: Maßnahmen im...

"This paper studies the relation between institutional investors and capital market development by analyzing unique data on monthly asset-level portfolio allocations of Chilean pension funds between 1995 and 2005. The results depict pension funds as large and important institutional investors...

"This paper argues that the dominant policy paradigm on financial development is increasingly insufficient to address big emerging issues that are particularly relevant for financial systems in Latin America. This paradigm was shaped over the past decades by a fundamental shift in thinking...

"This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of finance for economic well-being, provides data on the degree of use of basic financial services by households and firms across a sample of countries, assesses the desirability of more universal access, and overviews the macroeconomic, legal,...