The topics studied in this Special Issue include a wide range of areas in finance, economics, tourism, management, marketing, and education. The topics in finance include stock market, volatility and excess returns, REIT, warrant and options, herding behavior and trading strategy, supply...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Risk and Time Value of Money -- Chapter 3. Sustainability in Finance: Frameworks, Standards and Scores -- Chapter 4. The Space Value of Money -- Chapter 5. Implications for Money Mechanics -- Chapter 6 Conclusion.

In this study, we analyse the sustainability of fiscal policy of EU member countries within the panel cointegration and error-correction frameworks. Unlike the previous empirical papers in this area, we apply the test for panel cointegration between the primary budget deficit and the public debt...

This paper describes the Social Long-Term Care Insurance (SLTCI) in Germany. Based on a short review of the history of long-term care organization and the preceding laws in Germany, the implementation of the SLTCI as a self-standing pillar within the system of social insurances in Germany and...

Several top deals already closed, a still highly fragmented industry and strong pressure for further consolidation following the financial crisis - renewable energy certainly has become a red-hot topic in M&A. Surveying 220 companies in the solar photovoltaic, utility and financial sector as...

Die Akzeptanz kleinräumiger Angebote der Lebensmittelversorgung im Untersuchungsraum Stuttgart steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Arbeitsberichts, der grundsätzliche Überlegungen und aktuelle empirische Untersuchungen am Fachgebiet Agrarmärkte und Agrarmarketing der Universität Hohenheim hierzu...

Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analyse driving forces for land-use conversion and to assess, whether the German political "30- hectares-goal" is feasible given the current institutional setting. In this paper major driving forces for...