Die Digitalisierung biete Chancen und Risiken, gerade in der Autoindustrie stärke sie die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit – in Reaktion auf die Sachzwänge des Weltmarkts. In dieser Sichtweise erscheint die neue Technologie als Subjekt, angetreten zur Innovation ganzer Branchen. Dagegen fragt Peter...

Do environmental regulations harm international competitiveness? In answer to this question, this book focuses on the impact of regulatory policies on competitiveness and employment at the firm level. It investigates the trade-off between environmental regulations and competitiveness across...

This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank...