Whether people of differing types can live happily together is one of the most important social and political questions concerning urban areas. From a variety of theoretical perspectives, such mixing seems extremely unlikely. While the theoretical result seems well supported in the context of...

This research report from the Milken Institute ranks U.S. metropolitan areas that are recording the top economic performance and creating the most jobs in the nation. The index is an outcomes-based measure as opposed to one that incorporates explicit measures of business costs, cost-of-living...

A unique data set on home use of computers and the Internet is used to investigate the tradeoffsbetween physically commuting to a work site and telecommuting from home via computers. Thestudy further investigates whether individuals who work from home receive greatercompensation relative to...

Europäische Regierungen bedienen sich hauptsächlich dreier Maßnahmen, die sich explizitan die ArbeitgeberInnen wenden, damit diese ältere Arbeitslose einstellen. Es handelt sichdabei um Förderungen der Lohnkosten und allgemeine Zuschüsse einerseits, um Reduktionenvon...

Das BMWi hat im Dezember 2005 ein Positionspapier zur europäischen Kommunikationspolitik und darauf aufbauend im Januar eine Stellungnahme zum Review 2006 vorgelegt, die im Folgenden aus ökonomischer und aus europarechtlicher Sicht betrachtet werden soll.Aus ökonomischer Sicht ist der dort...

Das Richtlinienpaket des Ministerrates und Parlaments, deren Umsetzung in nationales Recht sowie Empfehlungen und Leitlinien der EU-Kommission umreißen den neuen Handlungsrahmen für nationale Regulierungsbehörden im Bereich der elektronischen Kommunikationsdienste. Wie es bei grundlegenden...

In the past few years, corporate governance has become a popular area of discussionin continental Europe. Having been a topic of academic research for a longtime in the Anglo-Saxon literature, corporate governance has only recently movedfrom a special interest into all sections of the corporate...

This report presents case studies from 30 European countriesfor which validated information was available to theproject by the end of November 2008.This informationreflects the situation of the cases at the date ofdelivery to the project by national correspondents duringthe time period...

The retail industry, an important contributor to the European economy, isbeing affected by changes induced by information and communication technologies(ICT) and e-business. As a result, retailers have come to embrace ICT and e-businessto various degrees. This paper aims to illustrate the...