What are the welfare effects of enhanced disclosures of public information - Is it always the case, that frequent and timely publication of economic statistics by government agencies and the central bank are desirable - This question has become one of several interlinked strands of debate on the...

Kombinierte Firmenpaneldaten führen Informationen über Betriebe bzw. Unternehmen aus verschieden Quellen und für mehrere Beobachtungszeiträume in einem Datensatz zusammen. Dieses Kapitel zeigt, dass die technischen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen in Deutschland es Wissenschaftlern...

What are the welfare effects of enhanced disclosures of public information ? Is it always the case, that frequent and timely publication of economic statistics by government agencies and the central bank are desirable ? This question has become one of several interlinked strands of debate on the...

Despite the advances in New Institutional Economics about the economic consequences of institutions and legal rules, up to now we have only limited knowledge about the mechanisms of the evolution of law. By combining the main ideas of Evolutionary Economics and New Institutional Economics this...