Several investigations came to the conclusion that, considering in retrospect, most Mergers &Acquisitions were not successful. Differences in the corporate cultures are often quoted asbeing responsible for the failures. So, the question arises how such failures can be preventedin future....

This paper tackles the issue of the incompleteness of information available to thecentral bank when taking its monetary policy decisions. It is focused on euro areadata and based on the simplistic assumption of the central bank following a simplemonetary policy rule à-la-Taylor. Along the lines...

After a short review on the history of human capital measurement we describe anddiscuss different approaches that are in use to assess the intangible assetts of anorganisation based on knowledge and behaviour. While deductive indicators helpto rise the questions on the value of intangible...