Social Darwinism suggests that in crisis situations leaders have to be replaced by better fitting leaders. An opposing school argues that leaders, based on their personality, are successful in all situations and therefore can master all situations including a crisis. A third view concludes that...

Freiwillige Feuerwehren sind in vielen ländlichen Räumen Europas eine etablierte Einrichtung der Daseinsvorsorge.Trotz dieser Allgegenwärtigkeit sehen sich viele Ortsfeuerwehren bei der Erfüllung ihrer Aufgaben mit existenziellen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Fragen wie die Durchführung...

This contribution gives an overview of the main results of our theoretical research on the stability and change of labour market institutions. We use so-called models of unionised oligopolies which are borrowed from the theory of industrial organization in order to analyse the effects of...

We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....