Discrete choice models are used to investigate the individual’s choice among a discrete number of alternatives. The characteristics of each alternative, by means of multinomial and nested multinomial models, have been taken into account. Specifically, this study analyses the impact of...

Die Institutionen nationaler Arbeits- und Kapitalmärkte werden in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung regelmäßig als Erklärung für unterschiedlich aktive Wagniskapitalindustrien vor allem in frühen Beteiligungsphasen gehandelt. Diese Arbeit nimmt eine Reihe von bivariaten Analysen aus...

Political power is being reallocated across territorial boundaries. Traditionally centralized polities are either decentralized or on their way to decentralization. In addition, European nations are engaged in the process of building a common set of rules both respectful to and compatible with...

Throughout the 20th century Germany's financial system has been dominated by banks. Recently, however, a number of efforts have been made to increase the role of markets within this bank-based financial system, including regulatory innovations, changes in corporate governance, and a reform of...

Seit geraumer Zeit wird dem Standort Deutschland eine Unterversorgung mit Wagniskapital diagnostiziert. Die Etablierung eines Wachstumssegments an der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse und die Unterstützung auf junge Hochtechnologieunternehmen spezialisierter Beteiligungsunternehmen gehören...

In comparative political economy it has become commonplace to distinguish between two types of corporate governance systems. In shareholder systems, influence over company management is concentrated with institutional investors holding small percentages of companies' shares. In stakeholder...

To understand how the welfare state adjusts to economic shocks it is important to explain both the genesis of popular preferences and the institutional incentives of governments to respond to these preferences. This paper attempts to do both, using a general theoretical framework and detailed...

Military spending in the West generally declined after the Cold War. Given the economic pressures that many of these states confronted, they can be said to have experienced a fortuitous conjunction of lessening security demands with stable if not rising pressures to allocate more resources to...

This paper examines the development of tax regimes across the OECD countries in the latter part of the 20th century. It pays particular attention to taxes on labor income. A number of results emerge from this examination. First, not only do taxes on labor income represent a major drain on...

Although scholars recognize that time-series-cross-section data typically correlate across both time and space, they tend to model temporal dependence directly, often by lags of dependent variables, but to address spatial interdependence solely as a nuisance to be “corrected” by FGLS or to...