Risk management refers to balancing risk and earnings, generally those who run businesses naturally assume the risk because they get in that position as a result of past successes. The challenge for managers is the intelligent risk-taking. Running a successful business means taking advantage of...

In this paper in attempt has been made to propose some strategic measures which are important for the survival of financial institutions in the 21st century. The study points out that liberalization and globalization offered many opportunities to financial institutions to provide wider range of...

Population aging challenges pay-as-you-go pension systems. Solving the associated funding problem constantly motivates reform processes. In addition to an aging population, specific regulations of the German public pension system lead to an increasing financial burden of national finances. To...

Due to Germany’s specific farm structure, the progressive modulation of direct payments decided within the Health Check of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is of particular relevance for German agriculture. In this paper we apply the agent-based model AgriPoliS to shed some light on the...

Nachdem das ifo Institut im Mai des Jahres 2002 seine Studie zur Aktivierenden Sozialhilfe vorgestellt hatte, wurde in Deutschland eine Diskussion zu den Möglichkeiten einer aktivierenden Sozialpolitik zum Zwecke der Entwicklung des Niedriglohnsektors geführt. Am Beginn der Diskussion standen...

Herbert Elzer ist in den letzten Jahren mit zahlreichen Detailstudien zum Saarreferendum von 1955 in Erscheinung getreten, die verstreut publiziert sind. Über die Rolle wichtiger Landespolitiker aus Baden-Württemberg bei der Europäisierung der Saar hat er genauso geschrieben wie über die...