In this paper, we study the drivers of public debt surges across 172 countries from 1980-2021. We focus on the role of discrepancies between the annual change in public debt and the budget deficit, referred to as stock-flow adjustments (SFA). The analysis employs survival methods to model the...

Purpose: Slotting is one of the main operations in warehouse management. It is based on the efficient allocation of slots for stock-keeping units (SKUs). Order picking and slotting represent a high percentage of total logistics costs; therefore, improving these activities leads to significant...

Zuverlässige Aussagen über die weitere Entwicklung unserer Volkswirtschaft, der Güter- und Finanzmärkte oder eines Betriebes sind nicht nur für Politiker und Unternehmer von großer Bedeutung, sondern betreffen auch jeden Einzelnen. In diesem Buch wird in kompakter Form die Fortsetzung...

I argue that in its adaptation from Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation, the concept of embeddedness has itself undergone a great transformation. In the process, significant meanings of the concept have vanished, while others have been added. First I explore the different meanings the...