The paper reconstructs the origins of the quantity theory of money and its applications. Referring to the history of money, it is shown that the theory was flexible enough to adapt to institutional change and could thus maintain its actuality. To this day, it is useful as an analytical...

This contribution examines whether the share price of the Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KgaA (BVB) behaves according to the (capital) market efficiency hypothesis of Fama (1970). The weak form of capital market inefficiency, according to which past share prices cannot be used for predictions in...

This paper examines the probability of the success of city bid campaigns on the basis of quantified determinants for a total of 48 bids for the Summer Olympic Games between 1992 and 2012. Using a model comprising the distance of sporting venues from the Olympic Village, local temperatures and...