Das vorliegende Papier dokumentiert die zugrundeliegenden Konzepte und Methoden des Räumlichen Agenten-basierten Wettbewerbsmodells (Spatial Agent-based Competition Model) SpAbCoM. Anwendungsbeispiele dieses Simulationsmodells untersuchen die Entscheidung bezüglich der räumlichen...

The relationship between stateness and state capacity, on the one hand, and political regimes and their dynamics, on the other, has received increasing attention in comparative politics in recent years. Though empirical research does not provide consistent findings, arguments currently under...

El propósito de este documento es identificar las tendencias más importantes y distintivas de la producción académica internacional sobre desarrollo regional y territorial, a partir de los registros bibliográficos indizados en Scopus entre enero de 1938 y septiembre de 2013. Para ello, se...

In this article I'd like to share some information about the economy of Western Sahara. The Western Sahara is a disputed mass of land which was formerly under the Spanish empire and was called Spanish Sahara. After the Spanish left it underwent a long and still continuing spell of dispute as to...

The purpose of this article is to highlight the perspective of the probation counselors from N.-E. Romania on the nature and particularities of their relationship with the supervised persons. In order to conduct such an analysis, we used data collected from 12 interviews with the probation...

This paper describes the need for more effective crowd-scale deliberation, presents the social computing technologies our international team has been developing to achieve this, and outlines some promising directions for future work

Tax-exempt municipal bonds (‘munis') are usually held in taxable accounts. The objective of the manager of such accounts should be to maximize after-tax performance. The standard tool for this is the so-called tax-loss harvesting, i.e. selling a bond at a price below the investor's tax basis...

Systems that use blockchain technology to improve the know-your-customer (KYC) process have only been proposed at a conceptual level and all share certain attributes that make their adoption by financial institutions (FIs) very difficult. We propose and program a blockchain-based system that...

To what extent is there an association between housing density and divorce? And if so, is it a causal relationship? Housing space may affect the probability of divorcing because of stress, lower subjective well-being, and poor mental health, any of which could put pressure on the relationship...