We analyze the spatial interaction among regions in North America and in Western Europe. We use a gravity model extended by a spatial correlation structure where data allows to evaluate the spatial interaction in two dimensions: level of impact and the length of the spatial tail. This allows us...

The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However, the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...

Aufgrund der durch Basel II veränderten Kreditvergabepraxis werden sich die Kreditkonditionen in erheblichem Maße stärker spreizen. Da insbesondere der Mittelstand diese Problematik nicht hinreichend erkannt hat, setzt in Sachsen eine Mittelstandsoffensive mit dem Ziel der Strategie- und...

Aufgrund der durch Basel II veränderten Kreditvergabepraxis werden sich die Kreditkonditionen in erheblichem Maße stärker spreizen. "Schlechte" Unternehmen müssen im Vergleich zu "guten" Unternehmen mit hohen Kreditzinsen rechnen. Die stärkere Spreizung ist in erster Linie auf die...

In our paper, we analyze, based on a new rating methodology, 105 enterprises from Saxony with respect to their ability to meet their financial obligations. It is based on classical financial-statement approach, a direct inclusion of risk and a stochastic simulation model of enterprise...

In summer 2005, the German telecommunication incumbent Deutsche Telekom announced its plans to build a new broadband fibre optics network. Deutsche Telekom decided as precondition for this new network not to be regulated with respect to pricing and third party access. To develop a regulator's...

Post reunification estimates of East German per capita income were barely one-half the officially reported level. This paper tries to explain this discrepancy and to account for the implied postwar economic divergence between the two Germanies. The statistical discrepancy is attributed to a...

Twenty years after reunification Eastern Germany's economy is relatively stagnant compared with most of the productivity and income variables of Western Germany. The strong initial take-off which lasted until the mid to late 1990s ended at a level of 70%--80% of the western reference values. In...