Nach dem jüngsten Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts steht die Einführung von Studiengebühren in Deutschland auf der Tagesordnung. Damit wird Deutschland der Mehrheit der europäischen Länder folgen. Die Modelle sind dabei sehr vielschichtig, was die Höhe, aber auch was die Erhebung und...

While there are many methods to measure the competitiveness of an economy, most of these concepts ignore the fact that competitiveness can change because of market processes like wage negotiation but also because of political decision-making. Governments that compete with others for factors of...

This paper presents a methodology to calculate the Systemic Risk Ranking of financial institutions in the European banking sector using publicly available information. The proposed model makes use of the network structure of financial institutions by including the stock return series of all...