On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...

Over the past 20 years Asian countries have achieved a certain degree of economic growth and at the same time deepened spatial interdependence. In January 2006, IDE completed the 2000 Asian International Input-Output Table, which covers eight major East Asian countries/regions as well as Japan...

Both M&A and innovation are instruments for growth and competitive advantage. Therefore they are fundamental to each firm?s competitive strategy. Usually, both instruments have been studied separately, but much less in conjunction. This is unfortunate as both processes - the process of...

Fusionen und Akquisitionen ("mergers and acquisitions", M&A) prägen seit vielen Jahren die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung erheblich. Insbesondere während der Zeit der so genannten "new economy" in den Jahren 2000 und 2001 erreichten sowohl die Anzahl als auch die Volumina von M&A-Transaktionen...