Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the politi-cal capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that...

The increased promotion of energy production from biomass on European and national level leads to land use conflicts on regional and local level. These conflicts appear usually in the legal planning processes during the construction of biogas plants. Whereas the steering possibilities for...

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the effects of monetary policy on business investment. Important ambiguities with the modeling of investment dynamics and interactions between real and financial decisions suggest modeling investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of...