Although natural hazard insurance is advocated as an important means of risk management, private insurance demand often remains below critical levels. Prior loss experience and the design of governmental relief…

• Upward Trend in Financing Situation Continues
• Logistics and Residential Sectors Benefiting from the Current Environment
• No Sustainable Improvement in Sight for Refinancing Conditions
• Negative Outlook in…

Since March 2020, the Eurosystem has been purchasing government bonds under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP). The PEPP was set up as a non-standard policy measure to encounter the economic…

• EU Debt Issuance for “Next Generation EU” at Risk of Becoming Permanent
• Awareness Campaigns Hardly Contribute Towards Flood Protection
• Multinationals Are Using Digital Infrastructure to Relocate Their…

This study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband within and across neighboring counties in Germany. Utilizing a balanced panel dataset of 401 German counties with data from 2010 to 2015 as…

We analyze a monopolist who offers different variants of a possibly dangerous product to heterogeneous customers. Product variants are distinguished by different safety attributes. Customers choose product usage…

In this paper we explore the relationship between innovative firms that patent technology related to Industry 4.0 and their economic performance. By applying the new patent cartography developed by the EPO that…

The forthcoming fourteenth Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) emphasizes innovation as the driving force to double China’s GDP and income per capita until the year 2035, implying five percent annual output growth.…