By responding to the warning voices about the failure of mainstream economics to provide policy advice to seemingly well-known problems as manifest in the ongoing economic crises, we put forward the proposition that the majority of deficiencies in this discipline results from two self-imposed...

The report summarized the main contents that were presented at the Second WWWforEurope Feedback Conference, taking place on May 6th 2015 in Vienna. After 38 months of extensive work on essential questions for Europe’s future with a particular focus on laying the analytical basis for a...

The Global Integrated Sustainability Model (GISMO), developed at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), is a platform for analysing the complexity of sustainable development and human well-being with regards to the three sustainability domains: People, Planet, and Profit (PPP)....

Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the resiliency of both individual financial institutions and the financial sector as a whole. Yet, its users must balance benefits and risks of these technologies. This paper illustrates five focus points which financial institutions should consider when...

Das Gründungsgeschehen ist seit den 70er Jahren ein Forschungsschwerpunkt des IfM Bonn. Zur qualitativen und quantitativen Erfassung des Gründungsgeschehens greift das IfM Bonn auf verschiedene Statistiken zurück (Statistik der Gewerbemeldungen, fluktuationsrelevante Informationen aus...

Definitive bezahlte und unbezahlte sowie transitorische Überstunden sind in Deutschland weit verbreitet und werden als Instrument zur Flexibilisierung der Arbeitszeit genutzt. Dabei haben insbesondere transitorische Überstunden im Zuge der Verbreitung von Arbeitszeitkonten bei Betrieben und...