The productivity of (human) information processing as an economicactivity is a question that is raising some interest. Using Marschak’s evaluationframework, Radner and Stiglitz have shown that, under certain conditions,the production function of this activity has increasingmarginal returns in...

Der vorliegende Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle der Informationstechnologie bei Firmenzusammenschlüssen. Gerade im Zug der Neuorndung von Unternehmen gewinnt diese immer mehr an Bedeutung.

This paper discusses whether, in which respects, and to what extent the corporate governancesystems of Germany, the United Kingdom and France have already converged in the course ofEuropean economic integration, or are likely to converge in the foreseeable future. Wepresent, and attempt to...

In a series of recent papers, Mark Roe and Lucian Bebchuk have developed further the concept of path dependence, combined it with concepts of evolution and used it to challenge the wide-spread view that the corporate governance systems of the major advanced economies are likely to converge...