Bank bailouts in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Great Recession brought into sharp relief the power that the global financial sector holds over national politics, and provoked widespread public outrage. In The Power of Inaction, Cornelia Woll details the...

The Power of Inaction -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Bailout Games -- 2. Crisis Management across the World -- 3. The Power of Collective Inaction -- 4. From Theory to Practice -- 5. The United States and the United Kingdom -- 6. France and Germany -- 7....

Es gehört zu den bemerkenswerten Paradoxien der gegenwärtigen empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung, dass für einzelne Unternehmen die Gewinne als zentraler Erfolgsindikator eine überragende Rolle spielen. Dagegen werden auf aggregierter, insbesondere auf gesamtwirtschaftlicher Ebene -...

This article gives methodological guidance on how best to compare the share of profits in value-added across countries using national accounts. Such comparisons are often based on accounts for institutional sectors such as non-financial corporations. It turns out that these are less...