Institutions have both positive and negative effects on economic performance. The theoretical and empirical understanding of the roles played by institutions, norms and culture in the functioning of markets still is limited. This book contributes to a better understanding of the role played by...

Subject is the description of unvariate and multivariate business cycle stylized facts. A spectral analysis method (Maximum Entropy spectral estimation) novel in the analysis of economic time series is described and utilized. The method turns out to be superior to widely used time domain methods...

This book comprises the articles of the 6th Econometric Workshop in Karlsruhe, Germany. In the first part approaches from traditional econometrics and innovative methods from machine learning such as neural nets are applied to financial issues. Neural Networks are successfully applied to...

Am 6. Dezember 1999 vollendet Prof. Dr. Ingolf Metze sein 65. Lebensjahr. Er hat sich einen Ruf als streitbarer und engagierter Wirtschaftswissenschaftler mit zum Teil verblüffend unkonventionellen Ideen weit über die überwiegende Stätte seiner wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit - der...

"The business surveys of the ifo Institute (short for ""Information und Forschung"") are internationally renowned. Every month close to 7,000 enterprises are questioned on their short-term planning and their appraisals of the actual and future business situation. The confidence indicator...

This book presents findings and results from the recent European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The EUCOWE-project is the first standardised company survey covering all...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Digital Healthcare in Germany—An Overview -- Chapter 3. Innovation, Incentives, and Information Technology in the Healthcare Industry -- Chapter 4. Digital Health Applications – DiGAs – Pathway to Reimbursement -- Chapter 5. Inpatient Market Access for...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Defining Competition & AI Developments -- Chapter 3. Competition & Governance -- Chapter 4. Competition, Market Power and Politics -- Chapter 5. Competition & AAI -- Chapter 6. US versus EU Competition -- Chapter 7. Chicago School, Harvard School, New...