Zwischen Abwehr und Imagefaktor - Deutsche Unternehmen und ihre Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Geschichte. Von den Nürnberger Wirtschaftsprozessen bis zu den Verhandlungen um Zwangsarbeiterentschädigungen - deutsche Konzerne haben stets versucht, das öffentliche Bild von ihrer...

Leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists here analyze current changes in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on a range of contemporary perspectives (such as evolutionary economics, and network analysis) they question many of the assumptions associated with the notion of...

Introduction -- Trade and protection -- Overseas investment, corporate strategy and European integration -- From 1945 to June 1955 : the Marshall Plan and the European coal and steel community -- The establishment of the Common Market and the free trade area proposals, 1955-58 -- Creating EFTA,...

It is argued that the observed return rates on capital at firm-level have an upward bias if firms are producing with unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is proved empirically. Furthermore, making unobserved...

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...