While International Joint Ventures (IJVs) are a well acknowledged and frequently implemented organizational mode, especially with regard to international market entry strategies, they are also prone to conflicts of interests, inefficiencies, and unintended termination. Accordingly, past research...

Das Leistungsprofil der Privaten Rentenversicherung in seiner Standardform als Leibrentenversicherung ist gekennzeichnet durch zwei zentrale Garantien. Zum einen ist dies eine biometrische Garantie, die darin besteht, eine lebenslange Zahlung einer Rentenleistung zu gewährleisten. Damit werden...

Chakraborty [Journal of Economic Theory, 2004] introduces endogenousmortality in a two period overlapping generations model by postulating thatthe probability of surviving from the first period to the second depends on taxfundedpublic health. His central result on the existence of multiple...

This paper explores these issues further by reconsidering the link between democracy and health using panel data from a cross-section of countries. The data show a strong (conditional) correlation between life expectancy and democracy. This relationship is strongest for the decades of the 1960s...

We study the importance of childhood socioeconomic conditions in explaining differences inlife expectancy using data from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in1937-39, who have been traced through official death records up to 2005. We estimate anumber of duration of life...

In this paper, we raise the issue of the appropriate unit of analysis for e-commerce studies.Once it is acknowledged that the unit of analysis in e-commerce studies should comprisemore than one firm, the question is, which organizations should be included, i.e. how tobound the unit? We discuss...