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...

Die umfangreiche empirische Literatur zur Gültigkeit der Erwartungstheorie der Zinsstruktur in den USA hat einen "U-förmigen" Verlauf des Informationsgehalts in längerfristigen Zinsen für zukünftige kurzfristige Zinsen nachgewiesen. Während Änderungen des Tagesgeldzinses in den nächsten...

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...

1 Introduction -- 2 Theory -- 3 Empirical Basis -- 4 Data Collection -- 5 Rating of Locations -- 6 The Influence of Firm Characteristics -- 7 The Influence of Location Factors -- 8 The Relation between Distance and Rating -- 9 Development over Time -- 10 A Wider Perspective -- 11 Summary and...

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

Since the 1970s social security in the European Union has been dominated by attempts at reform and cost control. In the last decade of the twentieth century these attempts have been strengthened by the coming European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). This book offers an overview of the social...

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...

"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...