Die Umweltauswirkungen des Straßengüterverkehrs rufen in der Bevölkerung große Widerstände hervor. Insbesondere in sensiblen Gebieten, wie die Alpentäler es sind, muss wieder ein verträgliches Gleichgewicht zwischen Verkehr und Umwelt hergestellt werden. Im von der Österreichischen...

As Enron and other recent scandals have shown, street-side research analysts can neglect their obligation to their investor clienteles by writing reports favorable to the corporate clients of the brokerage firm rather than accurately depicting the state of the corporation. In corporations,...

There will be eight special sessions, and proposals for organising sessions on specific topics are invited. The Conference Committee is particularly looking for proposals that combine technical rigour with policy relevance. Keynote speakers will include: Colin Camerer, California Institute of...

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER Is the Pharmaceutical Industry in a Productivity Crisis? SCOTT STERN, Northwestern University and NBER When Ideas Are Not Free: The Impact of Patents on ScientificResearch PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University Wrapping it up in a...

A special focus of the ECEC'2006 will be on enhancing lean manufacturing methods. The ECEC helps the dissemination of information and exploitation of results from the research and technical development and provides a forum for the exchange of experiences in developing and implementing CE based...

How well do classic notions of financial fragility translate to a system with increasing intermediation by large and/or complex nonbank financial institutions like hedge funds, broker-dealers, and government-sponsored enterprises? Toward answering this question, we are interested in receiving...

We seek submissions from all disciplines in Economics and Administrative Sciences. Potential subtopics include, but are not limited to, Political Economy , International Political Relations , Managerial Issues , Cultural Issues , National Autonomy , Environmental Issues , Technology and ICT ,...

The relationship between work and life was once a major focus of analysis but disappeared with the decline of manufacturing and the death of traditional occupational communities. Recent developments suggest that the work-life boundary should again become an analytical focus. These developments...