The success of the government-sponsored pension depends on three main factors: (i) Empowering willing consumers to save additional money for the future. For it simplified, standardized, and comparable information about Riester products and expected benefits are needed. (ii) False incentives for...

corporate governance can be viewed as a consequence of the pension industry reorganisation which occured in the 1970s and 1980s in so far as corporate governance borrows the same organisational principles.

This paper considers an international sample of conventional and Islamic mutual funds to assess whether law, culture and political risk affect their compensation fees and expense ratio. The data are hand-collected from many sources. Overall, the results show strongly that legal conditions,...

The authors of the article point out that economic theory has failed to yield a solid theoretical background in critical situations such as the current financial and economic crisis and the transformation of post-communist economies. Mainly the present crisis opens the question of the...

Our paper proposes to analyze the role of public procurement in achievement of the objectives of Europe 2020 Strategy, highlighting the social and economic impact of this policy on the European market. The research is structured in four analytical chapters and one chapter of conclusions. The...

This article discusses the main types of financing in the Omsk real estate, their comparison, identifying positive and negative aspects of financing, and also the role of real estate agencies.

We discuss empirical challenges in multicountry studies of the effect of firm-level corporate governance on firm value, focusing on emerging markets. We assess the severe data, “construct validity,” and endogeneity issues in these studies, propose methods to respond to those issues, and...

An article about the problems and prospects of the formation of a regional information management system for the commercialization of energy-efficient and innovative technologies in construction. The author presents the created project "Regional Register of innovative technologies in the...