Zu den wesentlichen Veränderungen in den Umgebungsbedingungen des Finanzgewerbes in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten zählen die Deregulierung und vor allem die erheblichen Fortschritte in der Kommunikationstechnologie, speziell der Übermittlung, Aufbereitung und Interpretation von...

The notion of new economy was coined in the United States when there was increasing evidence that, as a result of the introduction of new technologies, the traditional behavior of macroeconomic variables might have changed. The expansion of the 1990s differed from its predecessors in three...

In the recent New Keynesian literature a standard assumption is that the price for which an intermediate good is sold to the final good firm is equal to the marginal costs of the intermediate good firm. However, there is empirical evidence that this need not to hold. This paper introduces price...