Viele westliche Industriestaaten, und Deutschland insbesondere, weisen eine niedrige Geburtenrate auf. Um diesem Problem entgegenzuwirken, setzt Deutschland auf ein Ensemble kostenintensiver familienpolitischer Maßnahmen. Um Aussagen über den Nutzen dieser familienpolitischen Leistungen machen...

This paper provides further insights into the nature of relationship lending by analyzing the link between relationship lending, borrower quality and collateral as a key variable in loan contract design. We used a unique data set based on the examination of credit files of five leading German...

This paper analyzes the impact of FORIS contracts on litigation and settlement decisions using a simple divergent-expectations model. A FORIS contract introduces contingent fee arrangements under the British legal cost allocation rule: the plaintiff pays a percentage of his settlement or trial...