A collections of essays in honour of Branko Horvat, an economist and social thinker of great international reputation from former Yugoslavia and nowadays Croatia. The essays deal with themes related to Horvat's own work, namely equality, social justice, employee participation, labour management,...

Das essential vermittelt einen Einblick in den Aufbau, die Funktionsweise und typische Regelungen eines „Virtual Stock Option“-Programms zur Mitarbeiterbeteiligung. Der Autor erläutert die Bedeutung der Mitarbeiterbeteiligung als Bestandteil einer zeitgemäßen Unternehmenskultur sowie...

Mitarbeiterbeteiligungen bieten Unternehmen Vorteile für die Ressourcenbeschaffung und -bindung sowie Ausgestaltung regulativer, normativer und kognitiver Gegebenheiten im Unternehmen. Mit Hilfe dieser Vorteile können wirkungsstarke Beteiligungsformen die Überwindung von Unternehmenskrisen...

This book aims to systematically assess laws and practices, close gaps that currently prevent a full profiling of financial participation, provide a description of individual countries against the background of comparable scores for the EU 27 and to promote a common platform for financial...

Conventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises. The reality confronts it with a rich diversity in ownership and governance structures. This volume examines five types of unorthodox ownership and governance form emerging in the industrial sector across major...

Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting rule. The comparison is based on a medium-scale DSGE model which has been estimated based on state-of-the-art Bayesian methods. The model for the Swiss economy is an expanded...

Investors are trying to generate excess returns through active investment strategies. Since the outbreak of the financial crisis, investors face a situation where increased risks are accompanied by falling key interest rates. An optimal portfolio in terms of risk and return becomes a perpetual...