In contrast to academic recommendations monetary authorities all over the world intervene on the foreign exchange market to actively manage the exchange rate. Particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis the exchange rate is abused by some countries in a currency war to...

Die Finanzlage der Sozialversicherung hat sich in den Jahren 2011 und 2012 vor allem infolge des kräftigen Aufschwungs stark verbessert. Der Budgetüberschuss betrug im Jahr 2011 rund 16 Mrd. Euro, im Jahr 2012 sogar mehr als 18 Mrd. Euro (Statistisches Bundesamt 2013). Angesichts der...

Successful cooperation between development researchers and development policy makers and practitioners translates into better development policies, projects and programmes. Research is relevant if it can provide meaningful input for the practitioners. At the same time, practitioners have to be...

This paper focuses on the legal monopoly for sporting bets in Germany. We analyze the pricing behavior of the monopolist ODDSET and find that typical pricing inefficiencies on betting markets are reinforced under the monopoly. This result in conjunction with the decreasing tax revenue may...