The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their generalized form need to be further reflected in order to identify synergies and trade-offs between their targets, and to apply them to concrete nations and regions. Explorative qualitative cause and effect modeling could serve as an...

This article presents a systematization and quantitative evaluation of the economic literature regarding the Brazilian Development Bank – BNDES – produced since its foundation, in 1952, until 2013. We identified, catalogued, read and analyzed approximately 1000 studies, in order to...

German Social Democracy is facing tremendous challenges of societal and economic changes: party dealignment, a bourgeoisification of society, the rise of media democracy, and economic and cultural globalisation. The party's reaction - a third order change in its ideological objectives and a...

Der Zugang zu wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungsdaten bleibt inDeutschland hinter den internationalen Standards zurück. Eine Umfrage unter den Mitgliederndes Vereins für Socialpolitik ergab eine große Unzufriedenheit mit dem Status quo. DieBeiträge des Zeitgesprächs geben...

The paper begins with a figurative representation of the contrast between present-day and formal applied econometrics. An explication of the status of bridge principles in applied econometrics follows. To illustrate the concepts used in the explication, the paper presents a simultaneous-equation...