Local governments in Japan account for about 80 per cent of general government spending when excluding social security expenditures. Therefore, for the implementation of fiscal policy it is important how local governments will behave. On the basis of the economic theories on fiscal federalism it...

Die mit großer Authenzität erzählte Geschichte vom Aufstieg und Niedergang der Investmentbank Lehman Brothers und ihrer Rettung durch das Weiße Haus, das Finanzministerium und die US-Notenbank gibt tiefe Einblicke in die internationale Finanzwirtschaft. (I. Müller-Boysen)

How can we determine when an existing institutional path or trajectory is ending and being replaced with a new one? How does such a process take place? How can we distinguish between institutional innovation within an existing trajectory and a switchover to a new trajectory or path? This paper...