Eine in Deutschland prominent vertretene Position schlägt vor, die Tradition des "Ehrbaren Kaufmanns" als zentrale historische Quelle heranzuziehen, um eine stärkere positive Fundierung von Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) zu ermöglichen. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwickelt dieser Beitrag...

A methodological critique of the Chicago School of legaleconomic analysis, in particular Posner's approach, is illustrated by an example characterizing Chicago-type 'analysis of law'. Although the discussion of the example referred to may be interesting in its own right, its purpose here is to...

This paper proposes a novel strategy for identifying the effects of import competition on economic outcomes that avoids standard concerns related to the endogeneity of trade policy and provides a consistent measure of exposure to trade over time. Conditioning on the level of import tariffs, our...

This study establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and regional economic development...