Wohn-Riester wird in Literatur und Praxis teilweise äußerst kritisch gesehen. Es sei für die potenziellen Anwender zu kompliziert und die nachgelagerte Besteuerung stelle die Wirtschaftlichkeit in Frage. Der Autor kommt zu völlig anderen Ergebnissen: Die Komplexität ist geringer und die...

The Riester pension is much better than its reputation. Only some of the criticism is actually problematic. In part the legislature has already addressed or is going to address some of the existent issues. Behind the argument that the return was no better than a piggy bank is a miscalculation:...

This paper gives an overview of the role of the IMF in the European debt crisis. It describes the rescue packages and the involvement of the IMF. The main part discusses the pros and cons of the participation of the IMF in elaborating and monitoring the economic adjustment programs for the...

In this article, we revisit the Friday the 13th effect discussed by Kolb and Rodriguez (1987) that has received increased interest in recent research. Using a dummy-augmented GARCH model, we investigate whether the occurrence of this superstitious calendar day has significant impact on the...

Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature, our results suggest that...

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the period 1960 to 2000. In contrast to many other studies, we use long time series and analyze cyclically adjusted trend values of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is...

Der Shared Value Ansatz ist ein aktueller Versuch eine Brücke zwischen Unternehmertum und unternehmerischer Verantwortung zu bilden. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, in welchem Verhältnis Nachhaltigkeit und Ökonomie stehen. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert dieses Verhältnis und sucht eine Antwort auf...

Die EZB hat angekündigt, ihr Bilanzvolumen von unter 2 Billionen Euro wieder auf das Niveau von Anfang 2012 von 3 Billionen Euro auszweiten. Die EZB wird der Eurozone daher etwa 1 Billion Euro an Liquidität zur Verfügung stellen. Die Einspeisung der Liquidität in die Märkte wird durch die...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a service development process that is adapted to manufacturing companies and to discuss its implication for companies with a focus on product development and product sales. This paper looks at new service development (NSD) literature and argues for design...