The paper tracks the fate of content as it passes across three grids of understanding: across the grid of ‘culture’, of ‘services’, and of ‘knowledge’. These grids also serve as historical and/or possible rationales for state intervention in the creative ndustries, as well as...

While the recent commodity price crisis brings questions regarding the general developement path of the CAP since 1992, this paper envisages returning to Rooseveltian recipes, after modernization.

In 2000 the UK adopted a tonnage tax strategy on ships and related businesses as the main strategy for revitalising its declining shipping industry. In line with EU policy on shipping, UK registered shipping companies were offered fiscal incentives based on reduced corporation taxes while labour...

In 2000 the UK adopted a tonnage tax strategy on ships and related businesses as the main strategy for revitalising its declining shipping industry. In line with EU policy on shipping, UK registered shipping companies were offered fiscal incentives based on reduced corporation taxes while labour...

The concept of trust has recently been rediscovered, especially in the fields of economic sociology and organization theory. Nevertheless, the actual functioning of trust in markets has only been understood incompletely up to now. As this paper argues, one reason for this is that...

The young market economies of the states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are knocking at the door of the EuropeanUnion. This led public and economic discussion to a debate on the question, if, considering the relative economicunderdevelopment of the reform countries compared with the...

Die jungen Marktwirtschaften der Staaten Mittel- und Osteuropas streben nach der Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union.Bereits im April 1998 werden erste Beitrittsverhandlungen mit fünf Ländern aus der Region beginnen. Die ökonomischeProblematik einer Integration der Reformländer in den...

Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit Fusionen im Krankenhausmarkt und deren Auswirkungen, speziell auf Kosten und Gewinne. Dabei werden Fusionen zwischen Krankenhausabteilungen und Fusionen zwischen Krankenhäusern analysiert. Es wird angenommen, dass Krankenhausabteilungen homogene...

Die Kreditratingbranche (KRB) wird von zwei Kreditratingagenturen (KRA) dominiert, Moody’s und Standard&Poors (S&P). Sie haben einen Marktanteil von ungefähr 80% und zusammen mit Fitch vereinen sie in etwa 95%. Obwohl das Scheitern in einer zuverlässigen Kreditrisikoabschätzung in...