Die Corona-Pandemie hat 2020 zu einem der stärksten Einbrüche der Wirtschaftsleistung seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg geführt. Sie droht, Armut und Ungleichheit zu erhöhen. Auch die Staatsfinanzen sind durch die Krise in Mitleidenschaft geraten. Gleichzeitig ist der Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen...

The legitimacy of business action in globalisation poses a challenge for the emerging global governance architecture. For some time already, issues around business legitimacy have been discussed – although less so in scientific debates – under the header ‘corporate responsibility’...

Durch die vorangeschrittene globale Verflechtung der Märkte hat sich auch das Umfeld für deutsche Unternehmen grundlegend verändert. Jedoch gehen damit nicht nur für Großkonzerne weitreichende Folgen und ein dringender Handlungsbedarf einher. Gerade kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU)...

Foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency effects are estimated and confronted in this paper using a rich firm-level panel for Polish manufacturing. Besides estimating total factor productivity, other performance measures are calculated and contrasted such as labor productivity,...

The aim of this study was provide answers to two research questions. While the first one is concerned with the causes of the remarkable macroeconomic resilience of the Nordic EU-countries since the mid-1990s, the second one is related to the sustainability of a high degree of government activity...

Europe trails the global frontier of productivity growth and the region's trend is sluggish. Much prospective economic growth for Europe is likely to come from AI and its adoption by European firms which is projected to shoot up the productivity trend. For such AI-generated growth to work, high...

This paper analyzes the distribution of real household incomes and consumption growth in Azerbaijan between 2004 and 2009. Decile-specific price deflators were used to calculate real incomes and consumption dynamics. The analysis, which was based on growth incidence curves, showed that economic...