In many European countries efforts are undertaken to improve doctoral education. In the context of new public governance in the Higher Education sector, less state, more competition, less academic self-governance, more internal hierarchy and more influence by external stakeholders under the...

We study effects of Basel II on credits for Swiss towns and cities in the years 2006(before Basel II) and 2007 (after Basel II). We collected data of these loans andcomputed their margins. Moreover we collected data on the financial situation of thetowns and cities and used this to compute a...

Die anhaltende Krise der öffentlichen Haushalte erfordert einschneidende Konsolidierungsmaßnahmen zur Begrenzung des Anstiegs der Staatsverschuldung. Aus diesem Grunde erscheint es als ausgeschlossen, die anstehenden hohen Investitionen in kommunale Infrastruktur weiterhin nur mit Krediten zu...

The government’s main objective in developing better regulation and policy is to reduce the regulatory burden on small businesses, particularly those which act as a barrier to start-up and growth, and improve the ability of small businesses to sell to the public sector.The purpose of this...

How can high rates of attrition persist in a specific IT-hub for years, and how do transnationallyoperating companies with different institutional backgrounds cope with this challengeorganisationally? The present paper addresses this question by presenting first results of acurrent SOFI-project...

The paper is the first analysis of the competitiveness of Russian enterprises from the perspective of value chains, with a focus on the example of tube & pipe and furniture producers. In both industries, Russian firms enjoy an advantage on the raw material side. Nevertheless, the overall...

This discussion paper deals with the reconstruction of transportation and telecommunication infrastructures in Eastern Germany and especially Saxony after the 1990 unification.