Summary The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate corporate debt ratios by size classes in Continental Europe. Evidence is given on a sample of firms in manufacturing industry for ten European countries, all of them being in Euroland apart from Denmark (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,...

Summary We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model extended by a spatial correlation structure where data allows to evaluate the spatial interaction in two dimensions: level of impact and the length of the spatial tail. This...

Abstract Ausgehend von der Annahme einer fortschreitenden Herausbildung eines globalen Arbeitsmarktes ist das Ziel des Beitrags, Determinanten für Migrationsbereitschaft im Europäischen Ländervergleich zu bestimmen (N=7.220; Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien, Schweiz und Polen). Dabei werden...

Abstract Japan went 15 years earlier than Europe through a boom-and-bust cycle in the real estate and stock markets. The country has made important experience with crisis therapies in form of monetary expansion, Keynesian fiscal stimulus and recapitalization of financial institutions. Japan has...