An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries.This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase therelative return of the...

For over a decade, The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation, Washington's preeminent think tank, have tracked the march of economic freedom around the world with the influential Index of Economic Freedom. Since 1995, the Index has brought Smith's theories about liberty, prosperity and...

In this paper we question the consensus of using a binary crisisdefinition for empirical crisis models. We believe that the most severeshortcomings of the crisis models today are in the crisis definition rather than the explanatory variables ...

Regarding to the success of a company acting on foreign markets, an intercultural competent staff has become progressively important. Therefore, management studies have paid an increased empirical attention on Intercultural Competence.The model of Intercultural Sensitivity by Chen and Starosta,...

Japanese multinational companies (MNCs) have often been portrayed as highly centralised firms that limit the roles of overseas subsidiaries to the assembly and sale of standardised products designed and developed in Japan (see, e.g. Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1989: 51-2, 158-161). Their foreign...

Despite the rapid rise in cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the past twenty years, there has been little attention paid to what determines their patterns and, in particular, what influences their behaviour over time. Employing a panel database this paper models the behaviour of foreign...

Mit fortschreitender Globalisierung der Wirtschaft nimmt der Umfang von Auslandsinvestitionen in Immobilien zu; der Asset markt ist immer weniger duch Ländergrenzen bestimmt. Die Gründe hierfür liegen sowohl in dem sich verschärfenden Wettbewerb um rentable Anlagemöglichkeiten als auch in...

Seit dem 1. April 1961 ist in der Schweiz der Erwerb von Grundeigentum durch Personen im Ausland nur noch eingeschränkt möglich. Heute regeln das Bundesgesetz über den Erwerb von grundstücken durch Personen im Ausland (BewG) und die Verordnung über den Erwerb von Grundstücken durch...

Lex Koller – Nicht nur ausländische Immobilieninvestoren interessieren sich für die «Lex Koller» beziehungsweise die vom Bundesrat Mitte 2007 beschlossene Abschaffung dieses Gesetzes. Seit der Bekanntgabe formiert sich Widerstand. Eine Volksabstimmung ist nicht mehr ausgeschlossen.