Nach 2001 (zum ehrenamtlichen Engagement) und 2006 (über die Schaffungneuer Arbeitsplätze) hat der Bundesverein zur Förderung des Genossenschaftsgedankense.V. im Jahr 2009 bereits zum dritten Mal den Wettbewerbum den Genossenschaftspreis ausgeschrieben. Dadurch möchte der Bundesvereinauf den...

The tasks as well as the types of co-operatives within an economy have continuouslybeen discussed for nearly two hundred years. Since the days ofOwen, the principles as well as the appearance of co-operatives have beenheavily disputed. This became evident by the controversy between...

While other parts of the new institutional economics (e. g. principal agent theory,transaction cost theory) have already been applied to co-operative researchwith some success, property rights theory has as yet been only rarelyused in this regard. At the same time, the traditional structure of...

The tasks as well as the types of co-operatives within an economy have continuously been discussed for nearly two hundred years. Since the days of Owen, the principles as well as the appearance of co-operatives have been heavily disputed. This became evident by the controversy between Huber,...

After some two years of deliberations, in July 2006 the SEC released its long-awaited Guidance on the scope of the soft dollar safe harbor. Passed as part of the Securities Acts Amendments in May, 1975, the safe harbor has protected fund advisers and other money managers for over 30 years from...

This paper relies on the economics of transaction costs to assess the likely effect on investor welfare of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) prohibition on an innovative business practice known as directed brokerage. Its key insight is that the quality of a broker's execution...

This study aims to provide a formal haggling theory of firm boundaries. In the face of unforeseen disturbances in trade circumstances, trading parties engage in ex post contract renegotiation, which ends with either agreement, disagreement, or third-party intervention. Given that the third-party...

The Kyoto Protocol was approved in February 2005 and the carbon market without rules, played by pioneer companies interested in learning how to do with their corporate image, started working towards a formality. As Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) market has already established Institutional...