Although the international economy seems to be well on the road to recovery, the question remains as to how much of this recovery is of a short-term cyclical nature and how much an expression of a renewed longer-term trend towards economic growth. Are we merely witnessing an increased...

Nach den Vereinigten Staaten drohen nun auch andere Länder in eine Immobilienkrise abzurutschen. Besonders in Großbritannien und Spanien sprechen bereits viele Anzeichen dafür, dass eine solche Krise bereits ausgebrochen ist, aber auch Frankreich könnte - neben einer Reihe von kleineren...

In recent years, accounting regulation has been internationalized with the extensive use and adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by nation-states, which points at least to a formal convergence between accounting regulatory systems. However, major differences between...

The conventional approach to comparing tax progression (using local measures, global measures or dominance relations for first moment distribution functions) often lacks applicability to the real world: local measures of tax progression have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution...

This paper contributes to research at the intersection of international and comparative political economy, with particular emphasis on domestic explanations ofmultilateral cooperation. It explains why members of the European Union often have strongly diverging institutional preferences with...

Mit dieser Arbeit wird herausgestellt, welche Möglichkeiten auf diesem Weg für die Integration von Frauen und die Umsetzung von Geschlechtergerechtigkeit zusammenhängend mit Nachhaltigkeit eröffnet werden. Werden Frauen bei der Aufstellung Lokaler Agenden 21 (LA 21) einbezogen? Können neue...

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....