Kunst und Wirtschaft sind scheinbar gegensätzliche Welten. Dennoch oder gerade deshalb versuchen immer mehr Unternehmen, betrieblichen und marktlichen Herausforderungen mit Hilfe von Kunst zu begegnen. Dieses Handbuch zeigt, wie Künstler_innen Marken, Produkte und unternehmerische...

Using firm-level panel data from the German cost structure survey over the period 1992 to 2000, our empirical analysis shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that...

This paper presents structural estimates for a bargaining model which nests the right-to-manage, the efficient wage bargaining, the seniority and the standard neoclassical labor demand model as special cases. In contrast to most existing models, our approach accounts for heterogeneous skill...

No other area of the German economy has developed so emphatically in the past ten years as that of business-related services. Regardless their growing importance, business-related services still play only a minor role in official statistics. Above all, official statistics do not provide...