The participation of women in top-level corporate boards is subject to intense public debate. Countries are considering binding quotas to increase the share of women on boards or have already implemented such…
Increasing complexity and multidisciplinarity make collaboration essential for modern science. This, however, raises the question of how to assign accountability for scientific misconduct among larger teams of…
Dieser Übersichtsartikel fasst die empirische Literatur zu den Auswirkungen von Naturkatastrophen und Wetterveränderungen auf internationale Handels- und Finanzströme zusammen. Zu den Auswirkungen auf den Handel…
We analyze data from an author-conducted survey of members of the French and German parliaments on European Monetary Union reform preferences. We consider three potential drivers of preferences: nationality,…
In the last two decades, airline alliances were not only successful in extending the size of their networks, but also received approvals by public authorities to intensify their cooperation up to merger-like…
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for speed upgrades in broadband internet availability applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria throughout 2010 and 2011. We use a…
