Abstract In der Literatur zum Verhältnis von Innovation und Partizipation wird oft übersehen, dass die Öffnung der innerbetrieblichen Innovationsprozesse für die eigenen Mitarbeiter ebenfalls eine Innovation darstellt. Partizipation als Innovation trifft dabei auf eigene Widerstände, deren...

Im Juni dieses Jahres bekundeten die in Afghanistan engagierten Staaten auf der Pariser Konferenz ihre Absicht, der Kabuler Regierung die volle Verantwortung für den Aufbau des Landes zu übertragen. Diese Politik erscheint zwar alternativlos, führt angesichts der schwindenden Unterstützung,...

To test if safety nets create moral hazard in the banking industry, we develop a simultaneous structural two-equations model that specifies the probability of a bailout and banks' risk taking.We identify the effect of expected bailout probabilities on risk taking using exclusion restrictions...

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...

The paper analyses whether communication and actual interventions in FX markets are successful in moving exchange rates over the medium- to long-run. It compares empirical evidence based on time-series analysis with that obtained from an eventstudy approach. Both the time-series approach based...

Did the 2011 announcement by The Economist that ‘business has much to learn from the arts’ signal another short-lived management fad? Or might it mean that artistic interventions have entered the mainstream so that working with people, products and practices from the world of the arts can...