The issues related to the identification and assessment of risk in the automotive industry are particularly important from the point of view of functioning in a changing environment. The main purpose of the article is to present the basic definitions of risk and its types, as well as to identify...

Die stark gestiegenen Energiepreise haben zu einer breiten Diskussion über mögliche Entlastungen für Unternehmen in Form eines Industriestrompreises geführt. Damit sollen Unternehmen international wettbewerbsfähig bleiben und es soll eine Abwanderung ins Ausland verhindert werden....

The sharp rise in electricity prices has led to a discussion on possible subsidies for companies in the form of an industrial power tariff. The subsidies should help companies remain internationally competitive and prevent them from relocating overseas. Although German electricity prices for...

Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...

Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...

The lower levels of financial inclusion and severe financial inclusion gaps in Africa motivates the investigation of whether mobile phones, economic growth, bank competition and stability matter for financial inclusion. Data from 49 countries for the periods 2004-2016 were collected and analysed...

This paper provides a unified vision of a number of results that appeared in three separate streams of literature. The author emphasizes the strong parallelism between the results obtained in a number of papers that analyzed the relationships between price cap regulation, welfare maximization,...

Klimaschutz ist eine globale Herausforderung, für deren Bewältigung alle Länder eine gemeinsame, aber differenzierte Verantwortung tragen. Einzelne Länder setzen in ihrem Politikmix jedoch unterschiedlich stark auf die Bepreisung von CO2, so dass sich die CO2-Preise in verschiedenen Ländern...

Im Grundstoffsektor, ein gewichtiger Emittent von Treibhausgasen weltweit, werden Emissionsminderungspotentiale noch unzureichend ausgeschöpft. Vor allem von Möglichkeiten der Substitution von Materialien, des verbesserten Produktdesigns oder des Recyclings und der Wiederverwendung von...

Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not met its own targets. Almost 100 percent of households are supplied with broadband connections with up to six megabits per second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it...