Die Reichweite der unternehmerischen Autonomie ist ein arbeitsrechtlicher Dauerbrenner, deren Ausmessung Wolfgang Däubler in dem vorliegenden Werk aus der tarifrechtlichen Perspektive vornimmt. Quasi naturgemäß führt die gesetzliche oder kollektivrechtliche Eingrenzung des Arbeitgebers zu...

Team Europe ist eine politische Initiative, die Aktivitäten der Europäischen Kommission und der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten unter gemeinsame Steuerung und ein gemeinsames Label bringt. Ziel ist es, nach Außen hin als geeinte Akteursgruppe sichtbarer und strategisch koordinierter aufzutreten. Die...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of medical product and pharmaceutical global value chains (GVCs). Against this background, debates on various policies to increase the resilience of these supply chains intensified. However, there is currently no consensus on which policies are...

The present paper embarks on an analysis of interactions between the US and Euroland in the capital, foreign exchange, money and stock markets from 1994 until 2006. Considering influences on financial market volatility, the estimations are carried out in multivariate EGARCH models using...

This paper proposes estimating causalities in bilateral international trade in simultaneous systems, including domestic and foreign GDP as well as mutual trade flows. Conventional macroeconomic theory mainly follows partial approaches like import functions or exportled growth. Focusing on the US...

We develop a model to analyze the determinants and effects of an endogenous imperfect transferability of human capital on natives and immigrants. The model reveals that high migration flows and high skill-transferability are mutually interdependent. Moreover, we show that high mobility within a...

The paper proposes a data driven adaptive model selection strategy. The selection crite- rion measures economic exante forecasting content by means of trading implied cash flows. Empirical evidence suggests that the proposed strategy is neither exposed to selection bias nor to the risk of...

In this paper we adopt a principal components analysis (PCA) to reduce the dimensionality of the term structure and employ autoregressive models (AR) to forecast principal components which, in turn, are used to forecast swap rates. Arguing in favor of structural variation, we propose data...

Microfoundations of the euro's effect on euro area trade hinge on the timing, the speed and the size of adjustment in trade costs. We estimate timing, speed and size of adjustment in trade costs for sectoral trade data. Our approach allows for sector specific impacts of trade costs on sectoral...

Europe has been weakened by dif̈Icult UK-EU relations at a time of international challenge. Eight years after the Brexit referendum a new UK government and European Commission provides a good opportunity to reset approaches and put obstructions aside. Too big for either side to ignore, this...