Grundlagen -- Vorbemerkungen -- Empirie des Zahlungsverkehrs -- Die Neugestaltung des europäischen Zahlungsverkehrs -- Der einheitliche europäische Zahlungsraum — SEPA -- Die Vision eines einheitlichen Euro-Zahlungsraums -- Die analytische Basis des einheitlichen Zahlungsraums -- Interchange...

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for...

Political-economic classics of different schools agreed that capitalism inherently and inevitably leads to a decline of market principles. Analyzing indicators of liberalization policies for 21 OECD-countries in five economic and social policy fields, we demonstrate that Western industrialized...

Productivity varies widely between industries and countries, but even more so across individual firms within the same sectors. The challenge for governments is to strike the right balance between policies designed to increase overall productivity and policies designed to promote the reallocation...

The Quadruple Innovation Helix concept is the synthesis of top-down policies and practices from Government, University and Industry balanced and shaped by bottom-up initiatives and actions by Civil Society. In addition, of significance is the complementary expansion and completion of the...