Deutschlandweit haben sich in den 1990er und 2000er Jahren neue Formen regionaler Zusammenarbeit etabliert: Städte, Gemeinden und Landkreise engagieren sich in „Städtenetzen“ und „Regionalkonferenzen“, „Aktionsgruppen“ und „Wachstumsinitiativen“, „Clustern“ und...

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...

This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...