We analyze how the governmental market interventions, during the commodity price peaks 2007/2008 and 2010/2011, have affected the transmission of price changes along the wheat-to-bread supply chain in Serbia. We aim to investigate if consumers benefitted from the wheat and flour export...

Government intervention or free competition? Based on articles written from the perspective of law, economics, the history of law and the history of economics, the authors of this volume deal with the question of how much market and how much regulation are necessary in the telecommunications...

Using case studies and studies of problems as examples, the authors of this volume show how legal reforms created the basis for industrialization and influenced its structure. In doing so, they examine the close connection between economic and legal history during this time. (Published in German.)

The authors of this conference volume provide new findings about the German and American historical experiences with the regulation of natural monopolies, explaining differences as well as similarities in the evolution of both legal systems.

Aktuelle wirtschaftshistorische Forschung belegt, dass vergangene historische Begebenheiten einen großen Einfluss auf aktuelle wirtschaftliche und soziale Entwicklungen haben. Auf der Konferenz »The Long Shadow of History« kamen international renommierte Wissenschaftler am Center for Advanced...

When the Austrian Institute of Economic Research WIFO was re-established after 1945, its scientific profile was chiefly defined by Hans Seidel, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday. He attained his vision of what WIFO should be and become by his careful attention to the editorial work for...

Die Rolle der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung wird für vier Perioden seit 1871 daraufhin analysiert, ob man bei der Suche nach einem effizienten System der Arbeitslosenversicherung aus der Geschichte lernen kann. Die vier Perioden (Periode I: 1871/1914; II: 1918/32; III: 1933/39; IV: 1949/2001) sind...