Die Existenz von Verbänden läßt sich in einem demokratischen Gesellschaftssystem sowohl normativ als auch positiv begründen. Zwar haben die Väter des Grundgesetzes Verbände im Gegensatz zu politischen Parteien nicht explizit als Träger der Willensbildung verankert, aber dennoch sind...

We used a recursive modeling approach to study whether investors could, in real time, have used information on the comovement of stock markets to forecast stock returns in European stock markets for high-technology firms. We used weekly data on returns in the Neuer Markt, the Nouveau Marché,...

A contingent claims valuation model which allows to highlight the implications of program trading in spot markets for the pricing of European-style foreign currency options and for the volatility strike structure implicit in these contracts is devoloped. The curvature of the volatility strike...

The paper is about the economically efficient design of financial transfers to the unemployed in a highly industrialized country. There have been quite a few contributions to this problem — for example by Beenstock/Brasse, Feldstein/ Altman, Grubel, Orzag/Snower — which are presented and...

Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of the United Kingdom it is shown that the US unemployment insurance (UI) is the only system that provides for a negative feedback between UI expenditures and layoffs (“experience rating”). The UK has no specific UI:...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss major factors behind failures and successes in structural adjustment. The analysis includes the experience of four major European countries: France, Italy, the United Kingdom and West Germany. These countries are known for diverging performances. Germany...

Der Arbeitsmarkt in der Bundesrepublik und in anderen Ländern zeigt immer mehr ein Doppelgesicht: Die eine Seite ist der zunehmende Mangel an qualifizierten Fachkräften, die andere der anhaltende Mangel an Arbeitsplätzen vor allem für Kräfte mit Qualifikationsdefiziten. Arbeitslosen, die...