It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher...

Demographic trends put a burden on EU pension provision. As the sustainability of pension systems is addressed by current pension reforms, lower benefit levels are projected. In this scenario, households may want to consider supplementing their public pension income. As their own residence is on...

Informationsverarbeitung bei der Jahresabschlussprüfung -- Prüfung geschätzter Werte und kognitive Verzerrungen -- Stand der Forschung zur Key Audit Matter Berichterstattung -- Integrative Darstellung von Studien zu Entzerrungsstrategien -- Bezugsrahmen zu Entzerrungsstrategien in der...

Innovationen und Entrepreneurship -- Innovationen und Steuersysteme -- Rahmenbedingungen der Steuerpolitik in der EU -- Steuern, Innovationen, Entrepreneurship und Wachstum -- Empirische Analyse der Innovationsaktivität in Europa.

Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gäßler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany, respectively, affect patent enforcement and patent trade. In particular, he shows what factors determine court selection in patent litigation and how the jurisdictional...

Philipp Mohl evaluates the macroeconomic effects of EU Cohesion Policy with the help of empirical methods. His findings indicate that in particular the part of EU Cohesion Policy which is spent for the poorest regions (the so-called Objective 1 funding) has a positive and statistically...

An Optional European Contract Code in the Institutional Competition between European Contract Laws -- Assessment of the Desirability of an Optional European Contract Law -- Evaluation of the European Commission's Impact Assessment Accompanying the Proposal for a Regulation on a CESL.

Monetary policy transmission -- A new view: Implications of financial innovation for the bank lending channel -- Bank lending against the background of the recent crisis -- Empirical analysis: Determinants of bank lending during normal and crisis periods.

European Banking-M&A — Die Kapitalmarktperspektive: Definition und Abgrenzung -- Aufbau der empirischen Analyse zur Bestimmung der Aktienkursreaktionen -- Aktienkursreaktionen auf Übernahmen börsennotierter Targets -- Aktienkursreaktionen auf Übernahmen nicht börsennotierter Targets --...