The demand for integrated risk management solutions and the need for new sources of capital have led to the development of innovative risk management products that mix the characteristics of traditional insurance and financial products. Such products, usually referred as Alternative Risk...

Die Arbeit analysiert die finanzpolitische Entwicklung der Jahre 1989 und 1990 in Österreich. Neben einer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Betrachtung des öffentlichen Sektors sowie der öffentlichen Haushalte von Ländern, Gemeinden und Sozialversicherungsträgern bildet der Bundeshaushalt traditionell...

Die Arbeit analysiert die finanzpolitische Entwicklung der österreichischen Volkswirtschaft in den Jahren 1991 bis 1993. Neben einer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Betrachtung des öffentlichen Sektors sowie der Haushalte von Ländern, Gemeinden und Sozialversicherungsträgern bildet die Finanzpolitik...

This paper investigates the need and the options for reforming the inherited public pension schemes in Central and Eastern European countries moving from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economic structure. Pension expenditure as a percentage of GDP in the former centrally planned...

The successful macroeconomic stabilization in Central and Eastern European countries has encouraged inflows of foreign capital badly needed to promote economic development. Strikingly, these countries have found capital inflows in their various forms to be a mixed blessing, threatening the...

Der Beitrag versucht anhand der Agentur- sowie der Stewardship-Theorie ein Rahmenmodell zur Erklärung wirtschaftskriminellen Verhaltens zu erarbeiten. Zu diesem Zweck wird neben einer Systematisierung der primären Interessenträger einer wirtschaftskriminellen Tat auch ein Überblick über...

Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide financial crisis and the adjustment to an uncertain'new normal'will make future pension systems...

The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme into a notional (or non-financial) defined contribution (NDC) scheme. As the new contribution...

This policy note offers motivation as well as game plan how to achieve a coherent and mutually beneficial labor migration system. It argues that migrant workers may importantly contribute to economic growth and development both in sending and receiving countries if they find the enabling...

[eng] Robert Holzmann, Lynne Sherburne-Benz and Emil Tesliuc — Management of social risk : the World Bank and social protection in a world of globalisation . Social protection is back on the development agenda. Long-time dismissed as ineffective, expensive or even detrimental to development in...