Die vorliegende Untersuchung widmet sich der Frage, wie in Zeiten großer globaler und wachsender inländischer sozialer Ungleichheiten Sozialpolitik in den OECD-Staaten möglich bleibt, zugleich aber auch in den Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern erst im vollen Sinne möglich wird. Da das...

Das Arbeitspapier 'Dienstleistungsforschung und Dienstleistungspolitik' hat sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, einen Überblick zu aktuellen internationalen (vor allem angloamerikanischen) Studien zur Dienstleistungsforschung zu geben. Dabei werden zwei Schwerpunkte gesetzt, die jeweils unterschiedliche...

The attractiveness of a tourist destination is partly dependent on its environmental and climatic resource base. Climate change can be expected to have an effect on this attractiveness and will subsequently alter patterns of demand. An application of the pooled travel cost model using survey...

As businesses span the globe, multinational and translational companies conduct their business operations in foreign settings, especially in developing countries and in countries in transition from Communist regimes. This poses new challenges to expatriate managers and to home-based staff in...

This article provides a non-technical overview of important results of the game theoretical literature on the formation and stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs) on transboundary pollution control. It starts out by sketching features of first and second best solutions to the...

The identification of the forces that drive stock returns and the dynamics of their associated volatilities is a major concern in empirical economics and finance. This analysis is particularly relevant for determining optimal hedging strategies based on whether shocks to the volatilities of...