Abstract AbstractEine andere Kultur des Umgangs mit Ressourcen ist notwendig, um nachhaltiges Wirtschaften zu ermöglichen. Der Sammelband „RessourcenKultur“ befasst sich mit der Frage: Was zeichnet kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) aus, die erfolgreich ressourceneffizient wirtschaften...

In this innovative book, international scholars investigate trust and its role in relation to the entrepreneurial behaviour of small firms across a variety of institutional and cultural settings. The contributors draw on original empirical material from a number of West European and East...

In this paper, we analyse the effects of objective and subjective knowledge about monetary policy, as well as the information search patterns, of German citizens on trust in the ECB. We rely on a unique representative public opinion survey of German households conducted in 2011. We find that...

The paper looks at the determinants of fiscal adjustments as reflected in the primary surplus of countries. Our conjecture is that governments will usually find it more attractive to pursue fiscal adjustments in a situation of relatively high growth, but based on a simple stylized model of...

Public goods provision often involves groups of contributors repeatedly interacting with administrators who can extract rents from the pool of contributions. We suggest a novel identification approach that exploits the sequential ordering of decisions in a panel vector autoregressive model to...

Der vorliegende Band "Wirtschaftsethische Perspektiven VI" enthält die überarbeiteten Beiträge des Großteils der Vorträge, die während zweier Sitzungen des Ausschusses "Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Ethik" im Verein für Socialpolitik in Regensburg (2000) und in Hamburg (2001) gehalten...

Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV)...