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...

Qualitative Methoden haben sich bei der Erforschung von Gesundheit und Krankheit inzwischen fest etabliert. Der Band bietet einen Überblick über die aktuelle Forschungslandschaft und setzt sich mit den Erkenntnischancen einer qualitativen interdisziplinären Gesundheitsforschung auseinander....

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor banks constantly. Thus, they usually obtain early warning signals that precede ultimate failure and, in fact, banks can be regarded as troubled to varying degrees before...