The Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee of the European Parliament wished to continue its considerations of the draft Consumer Credit Directive by looking into specific elements of the Council common position and hence on 10 October 2007, hosted a workshop. This document provides a...

Das Arbeitspapier behandelt die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf der IKB-Krise.

Over the past years, several countries around the world have adopted a system of prudential prompt corrective action (PCA). The European Union countries are being encouraged to adopt PCA by policy analysts who explicitly call for its adoption. To date, most of the discussion on PCA has focused...

In this paper, various econometric methodologies are used to attempt to assess whether the levy on lending introduced by Law 38/2022 has since had a differential effect on institutions’ performance. This is an extremely complex exercise, since, added to the inherent difficulty in identifying...

Aktuellen Beobachtungen im deutschen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel (LEH) zufolge treten die Handelsunternehmen mit der Einführung von Premiumhandelsmarken bzw. Genusshandels-marken (als sehr jungen Premiumhandelsmarkentyp) in direkte Konkurrenz zu entsprechen-den Herstellermarken und stellen Themen...

Die effektiv zu zahlende Prämie bestimmt sich in der Privaten Krankenversicherung als Summe aus Tarifbeiträgen, (optimalen) Selbsttragungen und Beitragsrückerstattungen. Letztere dienen der sekundären Prämiendifferenzierung. Ändert nun ein Versicherer sein Rückerstattungssystem, so hat...

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with lowreturns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area...