Conventional wisdom has it that policy innovation is better promoted in a federal rather than in a unitary system. Recent research, however, has provided theoretical evidence to the contrary: a multi-jurisdictional system is characterized - due to the existence of a horizontal information...

Conventional wisdom has it that policy innovation is better promoted in a federal rather than in a unitary system. Recent research, however, has provided theoretical evidence to the contrary: a multi-jurisdictional system is characterized - due to the existence of a horizontal information...

Die wissenschaftliche, wie auch die öffentliche Diskussion über die Kreditvergabe des IWF und der Weltbank, hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren spürbar intensiviert. Mit dem Ziel, einen Beitrag zu dieser Diskussion zu leisten, wird zunächst die Auflagenpolitik und das Vergabeverhalten der...