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What motivates companies to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Analysing CSR in the global sportswear industry, this paper advances the hypothesis that the campaigning activities of human rights activists pushed industry leaders Nike and adidas to incorporate labour norms in their...
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Two factors have proven to be strongly relevant for the subprime mortgage crisis. The first is the lack of screening incentives of originators, which had not been anticipated by investors. The second is that investors relied too much on credit ratings. We examine whether investors have learned...
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A fundamental cause of the global financial crisis was excessive creation of short-term money-like liabilities (quasi-money), notably in shadow banking holdings of sub-prime MBS and other US dollar structured credit instruments and in cross-border flow of capital to the uncompetitive Euro area...
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[Dynamik der Weltwirtschaft bleibt gering] Die weltwirtschaftliche Expansion hat sich im Frühjahr 2012 deutlich verlangsamt. Das globale Bruttoinlandsprodukt verzeichnete im zweiten Quartal den geringsten Zuwachs seit Überwindung der weltweiten Rezession im Jahr 2009, und die...
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Das internationale Freihandelsregime wurde in den vergangenen Jahren von wenigen Themen so stark geprägt, wie von seinem Verhältnis zum Umweltrecht. Der vorliegende Beitrag konzeptualisiert und problematisiert den im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs häufig verkürzt dargestellten Zielkonflikt...
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In small samples and especially in the case of small true default probabilities, standard approaches to credit default probability estimation have certain drawbacks. Most importantly, standard estimators tend to underestimate the true default probability which is of course an undesirable...
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[Weltkonjunktur bleibt vorerst schwach] Die Weltkonjunktur hat im Jahr 2012 weiter an Fahrt verloren. Zur Jahreswende 2012/13 scheint der Tiefpunkt der globalen konjunkturellen Dynamik zwar durchschritten zu sein. Doch belasten Unsicherheiten den Ausblick, die insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit...
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The Anti-trafficking Protocol reflects the interests of the major powers. Due to the high costs of compliance, countries will strategically select certain obligations to comply, which can satisfy the major powers with smaller costs. Among the three main obligations of the Protocol - prevention,...
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fully developed countries. An extension towards a two-region world economy shows robustness of the gradual take-off and …
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