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Zwei Kapitel aus der Frühgeschichte der Münchener Rückversicherung [Two Chapters on early history of the Munich Reinsurance Company: The Foundation/ The San Francisco Earthquake]...
Spree, Reinhard - 2010
The Munich Re was founded in 1880 and is from the very start till this day one of the leading insurance companies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427564
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Pharmaceutical research in Wilhelmine Germany: the case of E. Merck
Burhop, Carsten - 2008
In this paper, we describe the emergence and evolution of pharmaceutical research at the German company E. Merck during the late 19th and early 20th century. Revolutionary changes in the scientific knowledge base, especially the rise of bacteriological research, and the market entry of dyestuff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264832
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Expansion und Überleben von Unternehmen in der Ersten Phase der Globalisierung
Baten, Jörg - 2001
Die Determinanten von Überleben oder Sterben, von Expansion oder Kontraktion von Unternehmen sind ein wichtiges Forschungsgebiet der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Zwar bietet die mikroökonomische Theorie eine Reihe von fundierten Verhaltenshypothesen, z.B. die der Betriebseinstellung, wenn das...
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Catching-up and falling behind: knowledge spillover from American to German machine tool makers
Richter, Ralf; Streb, Jochen - 2009
In our days, German machine tool makers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and illegally imitating German technology. A century ago, however, German machine tool makers used exactly the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299540
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Windows of technological opportunity: do technological booms influence the relationship between firm size and innovativeness?
Degner, Harald - 2010
Many papers have been written about the effect of firm size on innovativeness, revealing a positive, a negative or a mixed impact. To this day, the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis of the above-average innovativeness of large firms has been neither confirmed nor rejected, often because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299992
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The welfare state evolves: German Knappschaften, 1854 - 1923
Jopp, Tobias Alexander - 2010
This paper reviews the German miners' model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation … and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner. The carriers of the insurance scheme, the Knappschaften, date back …-age insurance. This paper aims to establish the Knappschaft insurance's main characteristics in the period under consideration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300503
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Der moderne Frege
Lämmel, Uwe - 2004
Gottlob Frege ist einer der größten (der größte?) Wissenschaftler Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns. Als Mathematiker und Philosoph hat er die moderne mathematische Logik begründet, dazu Beiträge zur Mengenlehrer, Axiomatisierung sowie der Sprachphilosophie geleistet. Viele seiner Leistungen haben...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301386
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Is unemployment insurable? Employers and the institutionalization of the risk of unemployment
Mares, Isabela - 1996
development of modern social policy, this paperexamines the origin of the system of contributory unemployment insurance during the … working class as the most important protagonist behind the transition from 'assistance' to 'insurance' policies, this … an insurance solution tothe risk of unemployment was the decisive factor leading to the introduction of theinsurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304111
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Guns and butter - but no margarine: The impact of Nazi economic policies on German food consumtion, 1933-38
Spoerer, Mark; Streb, Jochen - 2010
The German population's material standard of living during the 'peace years' of the Nazi regime (1933-38) is much debated. We use hitherto disregarded consumption data and the axiom of revealed preferences to test whether the material standard of living improved. We find that the food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304443
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Große und kleine Unternehmen in der Krise von 1900 - 1902
Baten, Jörg - 2001
Die Krise von 1900-1902 wird oft in der deutschen Geschichtsschreibung vernachlässigt, weil die achtzig Jahre zwischen 1870 und 1950 von zahlreichen Krisen gezeichnet wurden: die Gründerkrise nach 1873, die Inflationsjahre nach dem ersten Weltkrieg und die Weltwirtschaftskrise führten zu...
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