Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors -- Chapter 3. On the Allocation...

This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output - presents a number of comprehensive surveys and assessments of the vast literature available. The collection not only includes an English translation of Verdoorn's seminal...

As ‘disruption’ is currently becoming the new buzzword in boardrooms, this book advocates that the most striking opportunity for business today is making itself relevant to its stakeholders. By presenting a new route via innovative business models, a transformational corporate approach to...

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader...

This book identifies and explores the mechanisms linking political institutions and variation in capitalist systems. A strong correlation exists between varieties of political regimes and varieties of capitalism: majoritarian political regimes are correlated with liberal market economies (LMEs)...

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2) building up equity for home-ownership....

Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection. In the first part, the author investigates the impact of education and education policy on income mobility both theoretically...

Einführung und institutionelle Grundlagen -- Informationsfunktion -- Rechnungslegung und Kapitalmarkt -- Bilanzierungs- und Bewertungsgrundsätze -- Ausschüttungsbemessung -- Bilanzpolitik -- Publizität -- Wirtschaftsprüfung -- Prüferhaftung und Prüfungspolitik -- Unabhängigkeit des Prüfers.

Die hohe Relevanz von Bilanzstrukturrisiken im Niedrig- bzw. Negativzinsumfeld führt zu der zentralen Frage nach etwaigen Abhängigkeiten der präferierten Anlage- und Kreditlaufzeiten vom aktuellen Marktzins. Aus dieser Abhängigkeit wiederum resultiert die Frage nach der Angemessenheit der...