We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...

Project risk management has become an important area of interest in project management practice over the past decade. Numerous best practice standards, tools and techniques have been developed focussing on a more effective risk management process. This process consists of four main phases:...

In this paper we report on the results of an interview research about new product development (NPD) processes and planning in 15 Japanese mechanical and electrical engineering companies. We asked the companies to describe one successful and one less successful project. All in all, we collected...

This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...

This paper analyzes a model in which creative activity and the security of intellectual property rights are jointly determined, both depending on the choices made by potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates of the ideas created by others and on the...

Im Zuge der Globalisierung und Beschleunigung des Wettbewerbs wird die schnelle und kostengünstigeEntwicklung von Produkten bis zur Marktreife zunehmend zu einem zentralenWettbewerbsfaktor. Dies gilt im besonderen Maße für die pharmazeutische Industrie, in der derAufwand für Forschung und...