Spätestens die Vergabe der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 hat in Deutschland einen Sportstadien-Bauboom verursacht. Dieser erscheint auch nötig, um die veraltete deutsche Stadion-Infrastruktur wieder internationalen Standards anzugleichen. Jedoch treffen diese gestiegenen Investitionswünsche...

This paper gives a first economic approach to pro cycling and analyses the changes induced by the newly introduced UCI Pro Tour on the racing teams? behaviour. We develop an oligopolistic model starting from the well known Bertrand and Cournot frameworks to analyse if the actual setting of the...

This paper offers new insights into the Italian mutual fund industry. Surveying Italian professionals, we do not only reveal typical gender differences but also detect divergence to their German counterparts. While disclosing Italian professionals? overly positive self-assessment in general, we...