Die vorliegende Studie zielt darauf ab, die Fortschritte in Richtung der definierten Ziele der "Hamburg 2040"-Strategie deskriptiv zu messen und darzustellen. Durch die Auswahl und Analyse relevanter Indikatoren und die Betrachtung Hamburgs im Vergleich zu anderen Bundesländern und Regionen...

In this paper, we analyse the final decisions for merger cases prepared by the European Commission (EC) since 1990 and build a unique subsample for all non-cleared cases. These incorporate all merger notifications which were either withdrawn by the notifying parties or have been prohibited by...

In order to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control, most governments around the globe have adopted some sort of containment policies. In the light of the enormous costs of these policies, in many countries highly controversial discussions on the adequacy of the chosen policies evolved. We...

While recurring and regular variations of weather conditions are implicitly addressed by standard seasonal adjustment procedures of economic time series, extraordinary weather outcomes are not. We analyze their impact on German total industrial and construction-sector production and find modest...