B<sc>urger</sc> C. Geography of savings in the German occupational pension system, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The German pension reform of 2001 significantly decreased the level of public pensions for future generations, and created instead voluntary supplementary plans. This paper analyses the regional structure...

The withdrawal of the welfare states from pensions underscores the need for a better understanding of the spatial characteristics of adoption processes in the case of financial innovations. In 2001 the German pension reform reduced publicly provided pensions, and introduced subsidised, voluntary...

In the past decade, hundreds of companies from emerging markets have listed their shares on American and European stock markets. Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) are the main countries of origin of issuers, and stock exchanges in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Luxembourg are...

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