Ende 2019 laufen die bisherigen Regelungen zum Länderfinanzausgleich aus. Zuvor muss eine Reform beschlossen werden. Allerdings sind die Interessen und auch die Belastungssituationen der Geber- und Nehmerländer sehr unterschiedlich. Der Bund kann Mittel bereitstellen, die natürlich begrenzt...

In der Geschichte der deutschen modernen Genossenschaftsbewegung kam der Förderung sozialer Belange in Abhängigkeit von den Vorstellungen der Gründungsväter, vom Zustand der jeweiligen gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse und dem politischen System sowie von den vorrangigen Förderinteressen der...

Little light has been shed on the functioning of business in potential post-growth economies. With this paper, we aim to expand discussions on post-growth economies to the company level and suggest one possible way to connect existing management practise with the fact that, in order to stay...

Family businesses, with no apparent heir, face the risk of discontinuity. While a number of family businesses rely heavily on non-family employees, the role of non-family employees in the continuity of family businesses is under-researched. The workers' co-operative model offers one way to...

In this essay, I outline a method to compute the economic impact of a sudden stop of natural gas imports from Russia. First, I estimate the reduction in the short-run supply of natural gas for the economy and the industry sector. Second, I use model simulations to analyse the effect of a sudden...

Sanctions and their effectiveness are at the centre of the discussion about an appropriate response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. At the latest since the atrocities of the war became evident and payment for gas supplies in roubles was brought into play, voices calling for a...