Nobuko Inagawa has written an excellent paper on the relevance of Japanese experiences for a successful integration of Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) into the world economy. Talking about the case of Japan is particularly interesting - and potentially controversial - compared...

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are commonworldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. Weexploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to supportmanufacturing jobs...

This paper analyzes an environment where a plotof land is currently under agricultural use under tenancy, andboth the landlord and the tenant can invest to enhance agricultural productivity. There is the possibility of converting theland to non-agricultural use. We analyze the incentives of...

An Geschäftsprozesse, speziell im Versicherungswesen, werdenim Kontext der Wert- und Kundenorientierung vielseitige Anforderungen bzgl.Standardisierung, Automatisierung und Flexibilisierung gestellt. Es stellt sichallerdings die Frage, ob schnelle und kostengünstige automatische...