Explores how public actors, especially in home countries, link foreign direct investment (FDI) to labour and employment issues.

Seit seinem Amtsantritt als US-Notenbankchef im Februar 2006 hat Ben Bernanke die amerikanische Geldpolitik auf den Kopf gestellt. Während noch vor wenigen Jahren allein der nächste Zinsentscheid im Blickpunkt der Öffentlichkeit stand, wird heute über die Entwicklung der Notenbankbilanz...

In the present note, an effort will be made for a contribution to the economic theory by introducing a practical method to estimate entrepreneurship´s reward. As an example, a regression, based on the estimation of entrepreneurship´s reward, with baning panel data will yield the same main...

In this study, we use firm-level data from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances to test the hypothesis that banking consolidation has reduced the availability of credit to small businesses. We find that banks in markets where mergers have occurred are more likely than other banks...

A new approach is presented. It is based on a generalization of a breach of a term of contract and on the economic uncertainty principle. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy are reviewed. The role of...