Substantial theoretical, conceptual and empirical advances have been made in research on the implementation of EU policies during recent years. However, our findings have remained ambivalent and our theoretical insights disparate. It therefore seems high time to address some issues that cause...

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...

Wohl kaum eine Behauptung bildet das seit langem derart stabile, dem politischen Streit weitgehend entzogene und scheinbar unbezweifelbare Credo politischer Reformprojekte, teils weitreichender Gesetzesvorhaben, wie auch der politischen Alltagssdiskussion wie das angebliche Anwachsen der...

The Benini distribution is a lognormal-like distribution generalizing the Pareto distribution. Like the Pareto and the lognormal distributions it was originally proposed for modeling economic size distributions, notably the size distribution of personal income. This paper explores a...

Mostly used estimators of Hurst exponent for detection of long-range dependence are biased by presence of short-range dependence in the underlying time series. We present confidence intervals estimates for rescaled range and modified rescaled range. We show that the difference in expected values...

In the paper, we research on the presence of long-range dependence in returns and volatility of BUX, PX and WIG between years 1997 and 2009 with use of classical and modified rescaled range. Moving block bootstrap with pre-whitening and postblackening is used for the construction of confidence...