With the increasing importance of the service-providing sectors, information from these sectors has become essential to the understanding of contemporary business cycles. This paper explores the usefulness of the transportation services output index (TSI) as an additional coincident indicator in...

Electronic linkages between organisations enabled by interorganisational information systems (IOS) such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Internet- based applications or cargo community systems are becoming increasingly important. Recently, many studies have examined the impact of electronic...

In the European Union (EU) and in Germany the transport sector is the only sector with increasing CO2 emissions (in the EU by about 32 % and in Germany by about 1 % since 1990). Especially in road freight and air transport a further strong increase is forecasted. In the transport sector this...

2001 dämpfte die schwache Konjunktur auch die Nachfrage nach Verkehrsleistungen. Insbesondere wurde sie von der Baurezession gebremst. Zudem kam es infolge der Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 zu gravierenden Einbrüchen. Insgesamt sanken 2001 sowohl das Transportaufkommen als auch die...

Angesichts der in der gesamten gewerblichen Wirtschaft als günstig eingeschätzten Geschäftsperspektiven für das kommende halbe Jahr lassen die Ergebnisse des ifo Konjunkturtests auch in naher Zukunft auf einen positiven Geschäftsverlauf und eine schwungvolle Nachfragesituation in der...

Although much research on migration has been carried out over the years, the focus of the attention has been mostly on immigration and its effects on the host countries and the economic drivers for choosing migration. Italian emigration abroad in post-World War II (1946-73) and in the 21st...

The Italian credit and financial system was the result of progressive developments that accelerated during the process of Italian unification. Our essay analyses the role of local private bankers in modernizing the economic and financial system of the country and the way in which the gradual...

Early Modern historians have long been fascinated by the mercantile world of the late medieval and early modern periods. The reason for their fascination can be ascribed to the wealth, cosmopolitism, social capital and political clout that many of these merchants (mostly men) projected onto...

The essay examines the contribution provided by Piero, Roberto and Leone Strozzi - sons of the wealthy Florentine banker Filippo Strozzi - to the French war effort in the last two decades of the Ital- ian Wars. A contribution based on their military and diplomatic skills and on the availability...