Innovation ist für die Zukunftsfähigkeit wichtig und wird in vielen Ländern Europas mit unterschiedlichen Strategien gefördert. Diese unterscheiden sich auf den ersten Blick weniger durch das Instrumententarium, sondern durch Zugang, Politikmix und inhaltliche Schwerpunkte. Der Band will die...

Respondents use different ways to respond to rating scale items. Hence, item responses do not only capture the trait to be measured, but also the way respondents react to rating scales. So-called response styles have been incorporated in a variety of psychometric modeling approaches and...

Introduction / Miriam Jorgensen -- Private sector economic development in Indian Country / Robert J. Miller -- Opportunities to diversify : reservation workplaces and job numbers compared to nearby county areas / Randall Akee, Elton Mykerezi and Richard M. Todd -- The challenges of American...

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...

On 11-12 May 2011, SUERF and the Belgian Financial Forum, in association with the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) organized the 29th SUERF Colloquium "New Paradigms in Money and Finance?". All the papers in the present SUERF Study are based on...

On 15th November 2012 in Copenhagen, SUERF and Nykredit in association with Danmarks Nationalbank organised a conference on "Property prices and real estate financing in a turbulent world". The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the conference.