Dynamics of Balance of Payment developments are still barely researched. Chapter 1 tries to summarize empirical evidence between institutional determinants and BoP movements and proposes a framework for the role of institutions in a debt cycle. It is found that “good” institutions do help a...

The 2010 European debt crisis has revived the discussion concerning the optimum adjustment strategy in the face of asymmetric shocks. Whereas Mundell's (1961) seminal theory on optimum currency areas suggests depreciation in the face of crisis, the most recent emergence of competitive...

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit den Determinanten erfolgreicher F&E-Kooperationen und dem Einfluss von Innovationspolitik auf das Entstehen dieser Kooperationen beziehungsweise die Diffusion der Ergebnisse aus diesen kooperativen Innovationstätigkeiten. Die konzeptionelle Grundlage...