Der Band versammelt Arbeiten, die sich auf die verschiedenen Entstehungs- und Wirkungskontexte des Totalitarismuskonzepts konzentrieren. Es geht um die pluralistischen Ursprünge des Begriffs im politischen Diskurs der Hitlerflüchtlinge, um seine nationalen Ausprägungen in verschiedenen...

We extend the definition of a convex risk measure to a conditional framework where additional information is available. We characterize these risk measures through the associated acceptance sets and prove a representation result in terms of conditional expectations. As an example we consider the...

We examine the coexistence of banks and financial markets, studying a credit market where the qualities of investment projects are not observable and the investment decisions of entrepreneurs are not contractible. Standard banks can alleviate moral-hazard problems by securing a portion of a...

This article evaluates the performance of structural equation models in validating measurement models for hypothetical constructs and deals with specific issues following from the way this methodology is typically applied in scale construction. In particular, controlling for various types of...