Das Skript gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Deutschen Wirtschaft seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts.

The trends and consequences of terrorist activities are often captured bycounting the number of incidents and casualties. More recently, the effects of terroristacts on various aspects of the economy have been analyzed. These costs aresurveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences are...

BEA’s national economic statistics provide a comprehensive view of U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. These statistics are best known by summary measures such as gross domestic product (GDP), corporate profits, personal income and spending,...

Reform of the welfare state is at the centre of political debate. In a new book, CASEmembers analyse changes in social policies over the last twenty-five years, trends inspending, outcomes of policies, and impacts on institutions and families.The stereotypes of both left and right are wrong....

With this study we are the first to systematically compare todays two major counterparts as a source of accounting and financial data for researchers: Compustat North America by Standard & Poors and Worldscope by Thomson Financial. This investigation is conducted for U.S. and partly Canadian...

This paper investigates which comparables selection method generates the mostprecise forecasts when valuing European companies with the enterprise value to EBIT multiple. We also consider the USA as a reference point. It turns out that selecting comparable companies with similar return on assets...

Comparative advertising has been permitted in Germany in 2000. So far, advertisingpractitioners and researchers have neither reached a consensus on its effectiveness noron its usefulness for corporate communication. The authors conducted two studies: Oneto capture the opinions of advertisers on...

This paper identifies some common errors that occur in comparative law, offers some guidelines tohelp avoid such errors, and provides a framework for entering into studies of the company laws ofthree major jurisdictions. The first section illustrates why a conscious approach to...

Der Europäische Rat von Lissabon hatte den Rat und die Kommission aufgefordert, bis Juni 2000 ein Benchmarking einzuleiten, dessen erste Ergebnisse bis Dezember 2000 vorliegen sollten. Die ersten greifbaren Resultate der Unternehmenspolitik werden im folgenden dargestellt.