Research on 'trust' now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the...

Der genossenschaftliche FinanzVerbund und die Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe werden als Netzwerke durch die aus der Förderalismustheorie entlehnten Kriterien für netzwerkorientierte Güter auf verschiedenen Ebenen analysiert. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich unter anderem, dass die Konsolidierung im...

Due to the traditional operational model of cooperative banks which is mostly based on financial intermediation, the range of a local bank's social influence in a given environment is highly dependent on the money transfer balance, that is using local money to satisfy local needs. A typical...

The German Environmental Liability Law (ELL) of 1991 has introduced far-reaching civil liability for environmental damages with the aim to increase firms? efforts to prevent accidents. Previous studies find poor evidence that this goal has actually been achieved. One and a half decades after the...