Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverseDebatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...

Die Innenministerkonferenz der Länder hat sich für eine grundlegende Reform desGemeindehaushaltsrechts ausgesprochen. Absicht der Reform ist die Abkehr von derverrichtungsorientierten Steuerung der Verwaltung, hin zu einer ergebnisorientiertenSteuerung. Das neue kommunale Haushalts- und...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Möglichkeiten der Bewertung von Kunst- undKulturgegenständen im neuen doppischen Finanzwesen der Kommunen im Kontextzum Zweck der Bilanzierung und schließt mit einem Modellvorschlag zur Ermittlungdes Erhaltungsaufwandes. Die ergebnisorientierte Steuerung und die...

This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public administration and the legislaturethat emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concernsthat the strong representation of bureaucrats in many Western parliaments compromises theconstitutionally proposed...

This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public service and the legislaturethat emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns thatthe strong representation of public servants in many Western parliaments compromises theconstitutionally proposed...

The co-movement of stocks and of fundamentals changes across the business cycle. Empiricalstudies have shown that the correlation of stock returns is stronger in crisis. Weshow that the correlation of fundamentals is the highest during crisis using a large sampleof quarterly firm revenues...

Major differences between national financial systems might make a common monetary policy difficult. As within Europe, Germany and the United Kingdom differ most with respect to their financial systems, the present paper addresses its topic under the assumption that the United Kingdom is already...

The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) is publishing this comprehensive glossary of payment system terminology as a reference document for the standard terms used in connection with payment and settlement systems. The terms have been published in the reports of the CPSS, the...

This paper studies a overlapping generations economy with capital where limitedcommunication and stochastic relocation create an endogenous transactions role for…at money. We assume a production function with a knowledge-externality (Romer-style) that nests economies with endogenous growth (AK...

The Friedman rule, a widely studied prescription for monetary policy, is optimal inTownsend’s turnpike model of money; it is not so in the overlapping generations versionof his stochastic relocation model of money. We investigate these monetary models inthe light of this disparity. To that...