Russia pushes for the "Russification" of the territories it occupies in Ukraine. Its policy is aimed at turning them into a military fortress against Ukraine. The declared aim of the economic restoration measures is to make the territories self-sufficient "parts of the Russian Federation". Their...

This paper examines the effect of financial sanctions at the most disaggregated level possible, individual bank accounts. Using data from the Eurosystem's real-time gross settlement system TARGET2, we provide empirical evidence that sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russian banks...

Wer erhält das Erbe eines Verstorbenen? Wer kann Rechte an einer Erbschaft geltend machen und wer entscheidet über deren Verteilung? Die Antworten darauf fielen in früheren Epochen und je nach Gesellschaft, Milieu und Kultur anders aus. Rechtliche, ökonomische, und soziale Normen und...