The Chinese state undertakes large scale investments in a number of countries under the auspices of economic cooperation related investment (ECI). While there are suggestions that it is an extension of China‟s soft power aimed at facilitating Chinese FDI in those countries, often for access to...

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between economic growth, institutional quality and financial development whitin a sample of middle-income countries. We generate three hypothesis on the potential relationships between those three dimensions by reviewing the existing literature and...

Das Papier nimmt aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zur Debatte über die Zukunft der Aufsichtsratsmitbestimmung Stellung, indem es den Stand der empirischen Mitbestimmungsforschung zusammenfasst und weiterentwickelt. Es weist nach, dass Mitbestimmung auf Ebene der Leitungsorgane in den...