The relationship between economy and democracy has always been fraught with conflict in the modernity. It is difficult to use the legal system to democratize economic behaviour without restricting efficiency. The volume explores this problematic relationship from the perspective of history,...

The concept of regulation is also connected to the humanities and history, a fact which had been given little attention up to now. Experts in constitutional and European law as well as legal and economic historians have explored this field in a joint research project, the results of which are...

Was the 18th century a time period of gradual market integration? Or did the wars, famines, and criminality drive central European markets away from each other? We perform cointegration tests between four German and three Polish cities for rye markets in the 18th century, plus selected tests...

Die hohen Wachstumsraten und die günstigen makroökonomischen Indikatoren der asiatischen Länder, die jetzt in einer Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise stecken, boten lange Zeit Rahmenbedingungen, die Kapital - in Form von privaten Direktinvestitionen, Portfolioinvestitionen und Bankkrediten -...

There is surprisingly little macroeconomic empirical research which would support a presumed link between education and development. I identify three major reasons why it remains difficult to estimate the economic relevance of education as a determinant of growth and development. First, most...

We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...

Die Regionen innerhalb eines Landes standen untereinander schon immer im Wettbewerb um Unternehmensansiedlungen. Die internationale Dimension dieses Wettbewerbs im Zuge der fortschreitenden Globalisierung hat im letzten Jahrzehnt ganz erheblich zugenommen. Das ifo Institut hat in einer Studie...