In this article, we analyzed economic surroundings as a precondition for the development of the tax environment in the context of alterglobal development. We admitted that economic globalization is harmful to the environment because it depends on its own viability: the constant increase in...

Among the conventional strategic business models, companies decide which technologies should be used. Contrary to that, at present, technology takes the strategic decisions in businesses playing a role totally unknown so far. The way of managing businesses has modified the fundamental economic...

This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohème" (bobos). This takeover has been associated with greater investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport,...

Die New-Economy-Euphorie, von der die ökonomische Diskussion der späten 90er-Jahre geprägt war, ist von einer nüchterneren Betrachtung abgelöst worden. In den USA fand der tiefe konjunkturelle Einbruch trotz New Economy statt, und er war dort zum Teil stärker ausgeprägt als in den anderen...

In den deutschen Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen (VGR) wurde bisher das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) in konstanten Preisen eines Basisjahres nachgewiesen (Festpreisbasis). Auf der Grundlage der Entscheidung der EU-Kommission vom 30. November 1998 wird bei der nächsten anstehenden...

Respondent-driven sampling is a network sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (for example, drug users, men who have sex with men, people with HIV). Similarly to snowball sampling, initial seed respondents recruit additional respondents from their network of...

In trying to capture complete within-household heterogeneity, household panel surveys typically try to interview all adult household members. Following from this, such surveys tend to suffer from partial unit nonresponse (PUNR), that is, the nonresponse of at least one member of an otherwise...