Deutschlandweit haben sich in den 1990er und 2000er Jahren neue Formen regionaler Zusammenarbeit etabliert: Städte, Gemeinden und Landkreise engagieren sich in „Städtenetzen“ und „Regionalkonferenzen“, „Aktionsgruppen“ und „Wachstumsinitiativen“, „Clustern“ und...

The paper tries to shed some light on the problems of centralization and decentralization within an economic union and the federal member states. Integration and decentralization are not opposite policy strategies but both meaningful if the single public goods and services supplies are analyzed...

In recent decades, Islamic Finance has seen an interesting growth and spread, not only in the Arab or other Muslim, but also in Western countries. This article focuses on Islamic Finance in Germany, a European country characterized by strong economic growth and an increasing Muslim community,...

This study examines the cross-border impact of central bank interest rate changes, using the example of the German Bundesbank. We examine the price impact of rate changes on both the general stock markets and on bank stocks in seven other European countries. The sample includes nations both...