Summary The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate corporate debt ratios by size classes in Continental Europe …

Summary We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model … structure than that of Europe. We argue that this relates to different types of institutional arrangements with effects on the …

Abstract Japan went 15 years earlier than Europe through a boom-and-bust cycle in the real estate and stock markets … very high public debt level. The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons … and recapitalization of financial institutions. Japan has reached the zero interest bound in 1999 and has accumulated a …

strength of monetary transmission in Europe. Finally, the paper assesses the extent to which the transmission patterns in … Europe converge as a result of the establishment of EMU. The paper finds the empirical evidence on cross-country differences …

smart city initiatives as government innovation and drawing on the government innovation diffusion theories, an explanatory …

/or challenges of customer relationship management (CRM) on these websites. Using diffusion of innovation theory and interviews with …

seasonality, a continued internationalization process as well as an orientation towards quality, productivity and innovation …

and the incurring costs of innovation have been scarcely discussed and analyzed, so far. Meanwhile, particularly in Europe … diskutiert worden. Dabei beobachten wir in Europa gerade in der aktuellen Zeit eine vermehrte Staatsintervention zugunsten einer … bestehen. Die kritische Würdigung schliesst mit Empfehlungen für eine Förderpolitik der touristischen Innovation ab.  …

entwickeln. Die Ausprägungen der Netzwerke beeinflussen dabei den Produktentwicklungsprozess und den Grad der Innovation. Die …, network characteristics and specifications have an impact on the product development process and the degree of innovation …