Personal linkage between the biggest German corporations is subject to a special survey by the monopoly-commission every two years. For the latest reporting year 2004 linkage-data is used to examine the impact of personal linkage on the compensation of management board members. The assumed...

Most universities in Germany are public firms but they have many properties of co-operatives. The most important thereof are described and analysed together with the characteristics of state-sponsorship. The real companions of the university as a co-operation are its professors. The same is true...

The first step towards integration of the ten new member countries of the European Union was their accession. The second step will be their integration into the European Monetary Union. Here, they have to give up their own monetary policy in favour of complying with the monetary policy of the...

Rankings gewinnen in der Wissenschaft an Bedeutung, stehen aber auch in der Kritik. Es kann Unterschiedliches zu verschiedenen Zwecken mit noch anderen Folgen gerankt werden. Im Folgenden werden nur Forschungsrankings betrachtet, die entweder wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften oder die darin...

In their book The Power to Tax, Brennan and Buchanan have pointed to a central weakness of the traditional theory of public finance and especially of the theory of optimal taxation: This approach overlooked the problem of governmental power and the tendency of this power to be abused. It was...

A school study of food pattern and life styles of more than 900 pre-college pupils aged 10 to 16 years in Münster, Germany shows that the participants, according to the recommendations of the Dortmund Research Institute of Child Nutrition, nourish themselves in no more than a marginally...

The concept of the life styles has gained important meaning in many facets in social sciences in the course of the last century. Worked out at first on the basis of the hermeneutic tradition of the social sciences, it was backed up increasingly in the last three decades by empiric cluster...

This paper investigates the complex interrelationships of qualitative socio-economic variables in the context of Boolean Regression. The data forming the basis for this investigation are from the German Micro-census waves of 1996 2002 and comprise about 400 000 observations. Boolean Regression...

Im Mai 2008 verabschiedete der Fußball-Weltverband (FIFA) eine Resolution zur sogenannten '6+5-Regel'. Nach dieser Regel muss die Anzahl einheimischer Spieler in der Startformation von Vereinsmannschaften im Profifußball stufenweise aufgestockt werden. Über die Reglementierung des Einsatzes...

Die Auswechslung von Spielern stellt neben der Halbzeitpause die einzige Möglichkeit für einen Fußballtrainer dar, während des Spiels Einfluss auf Strategie und Taktik seines Teams zu nehmen. Da die Anzahl der möglichen Wechsel beschränkt ist, kommt diesen Auswechslungen eine große...