National differences in corporate governance practices in Europe, such as board structures, shareholder structures, and labor participation rights, make it difficult to operate in the European cross-border mergers and acquisitions environment. Particularly thorny issues are "golden shares" and...

This collection presents an updated bibliography of those empirical forest ecosystem service valuation studies in the German speaking countries which relate to demand oriented measures of the utility of public goods. The associated database (which is provided as a separately downloadable...

Die Arbeit untersucht in drei unabhängigen Studien Determinanten der Renteneintrittsentscheidung. Es werden drei natürliche Experimente ausgewertet, die sich aus Reformen der Alterssicherungssysteme in Deutschland und der Schweiz ergeben haben und die Identifikation kausaler Effekte erlauben....

It is well known that after the First World War there was a massive flight of capital from the major European countries to foreign financial centres. It is surprising, however, to note that no historian to date has actually taken the trouble to make a detailed study of the phenomenon. The aim of...