This paper analyses how adjustment dynamics, in an environment with some degree of price and wage rigidity, may create and strengthen asymmetric developments in a monetary union. It presents a simple illustrative model of adjustment dynamics that reproduces quite nicely actual developments in...

New challenges arise with the trends that the Industrial revolution brings, as well as the impacts of Globalisation which are inextricably intertwined. Experts in the field are working together on creating tools in order to predict the domino effect it may cause to the economy. It is known that...

This note contains an empirical analysis of the decision of German-speaking business scholars to boycott and opt out of the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany's largest business daily, Handelsblatt. Our analysis indicates that scientists who are...

Neben einem konjunkturellen Einbruch leidet Deutschland vor allem unter strukturellenProblemen, wie Unsicherheiten bei der Energieversorgung, einer zu hohen Steuer- undAbgabenlast, einer ausufernden Bürokratie sowie unter Arbeits- und Fachkräftemangel. Dabeiwird als Folge eine...

Was sind "Freie Berufe"? Ihr Wesen, ihre Bedeutung für den Menschen als Individuum und als soziales Werk? Wen oder was fordern Freie Berufe heraus, wenn sie Anforderungen an "die Wissenschaft" stellen? Die Fragestellungen formulieren die Konfrontation der Selbstverständnisse von Freien Berufen...

Trotz des größten Wirtschaftseinbruchs in der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte hat die internationale Krise die Bürger kaum erreicht. Das wird sich mittelfristig bedrohlich ändern, wenn es nicht gelingt, rechtzeitig eine aufziehende Kreditklemme und eine bedrohlich wachsende Staatsverschuldung...

This article tests the hypothesis that financial supply-side shifts help to explain the low-investment climate of private firms in Germany. The core contention is that a firm's financial position contributes to its access to external finance on credit markets. Special emphasis is put on small...

Literature provides evidence of profit shifting of MNEs, particularly by intercompany debt. Therefore, we conducted a broad empirical investigation (survey), focusing on specific issues regarding cross-border intra-group financial transactions. This paper aims to work out empirical evidence of...

New challenges arise with the trends that the Industrial revolution brings, as well as the impacts of Globalisation which are inextricably intertwined. Experts in the field are working together on creating tools in order to predict the domino effect it may cause to the economy. It is known that...