European airports are now widely recognised as having a considerable economic and social impact on their surrounding regions. These impacts go far beyond the direct effect of an airport’s operation on itsneighbours to the wider benefits that air service accessibility brings to regional business...

Dass Fachhochschulen einen wichtigen Faktor der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungeiner Region darstellen, wird häufig mit der Charakterisierung der„Fachhochschulen als Motor der regionalen Entwicklung“ adressiert. Dieseregionale Orientierung von Fachhochschulen zeigt sich unter anderem...

[...]In this article, we pursue a transaction-oriented line ofresearch to help track short-term exchange rate movements. Byexamining a publicly available data set well known to currencymarket analysts—net positions held by speculators in thefutures market—we are able to document a strong...