In this open access book the cost and revenue overruns of Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to PyeongChang 2018 from eight years before the Games to Games-time are investigated to provide a base for future host cities. The authors evaluated the development of expenditure and revenues of the...

Aus den beträchtlichen Reaktionen des Kapitalmarkts auf Veränderungen der Umsatzerlöse von Unternehmen ergibt sich - auch aus ökonomischer Sicht - die Forderung, die einschlägigen Rechnungslegungsnormen manipulationsresistent zu gestalten. Christian Herold untersucht, unter welchen...

Dieses kleine Buch liefert historisch belegte Fakten ungewöhnlicher Maßnahmen und raffinierter Ideen aus der langen Leidensgeschichte der Steuern und Abgaben, die Schlaglichter auch auf heutige Eigenwilligkeiten und empfundene Absurditäten der Steuergesetzgebung werfen. Die kurzen, leicht...

This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. This panel unobserved components model features a monetary transmission mechanism, a fiscal transmission mechanism, and extensive macrofinancial linkages, both within...

Strengthening fiscal frameworks, in particular fiscal rules, has emerged as a key response to the fiscal legacy of the crisis. This paper takes stock of fiscal rules in use around the world, compiles a dataset - covering national and supranational fiscal rules, in 81 countries from 1985 to...

This paper provides country-specific information on fiscal rules in use in 81 countries from 1985 to end-September 2012. It serves as background material and update of the July 2012 Working Paper ?Fiscal Rules in Response to the Crisis?Toward the ?Next Generation' Rules: A New Dataset? and is...

This book is the thirteenth volume in the International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy. A collection of eight papers, the book concentrates on the deregulation of domestic financial markets and discusses financial...

This book analyses the methods used to assess financial sustainability as defined by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). Recently, there have been calls to consider sustainability as a fundamental guiding principle in public management. The financial and economic crisis has...

This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Well-respected, international scholars come together to discuss the level of economic growth following the crisis, concerns over inequality in industrialised countries, and labour...

This book examines the performance of the Brazilian economy since the Great Financial Crisis of 2007/2008 with focus on both the productive and financial dimensions, along with distributional and social issues. The book will bring to light the causes of the fast recovery over 2009-2010 as well...