Recent discussions about the low effectiveness of development assistance have generated new approaches with respect to incentive structures and institutional innovation on the recipient side. The equally relevant incentive structure on the donor side, however, has been largely neglected so far....

Recent decades have seen a significant increase in the participation of women in the labor market in a number of European countries. As a result there have been a growing number of papers examining these changes within countries. However, there have been many fewer papers examining the...

The conference is intended to give an overview of the current research undertaken by members of the Global Economy area of the network and to stimulate interaction and co-operation between area members. The focus of this group is to explore how the gains from globalisation differ from the gains...

Evolution, Darwinism and Economics; Natural Selection as a Concept and Modeling Tool in Economics; Cultural and Social Evolution; Naturalistic Perspectives on Economic Evolution; Knowledge and Economic Evolution; Models of Cultural and Social Adaptation

The massive and steady progress in computer technology during the last decades allowed to establish a new strand of modelling in social and economic sciences. So called agent-based models or multi-agent models do no longer require to aggregate individuals to representative social or economic...

Topics: Economic Growth and openness. An econometric analysis for regions; International evidence on cointegration between consumption, income and wealth; The US consumption-wealth ratio and predictability of national stock returns: Evi-dence for the G7; The European business cycle in a redux...

Schwerpunkte des Seminars bilden - neben einem Überblick über die wichtigsten Kreditderivate und Verbriefungstechniken und deren Einsatzmöglichkeiten wie etwa im Handel und Portfoliomanagement - die detaillierte Darstellung der Konstruktionsmerkmale von Kreditderivaten sowie der Vergleich von...

Zinsänderungsrisiken stehen im Mittelpunkt bankbetrieblicher Risikocontrolling- und Risikomanagementsysteme. Für den Aufbau, die Pflege und die Nutzung dieser Systeme ist das inhaltliche und formale Verständnis der auf Kassa- und Terminmärkten gehandelten Produkte...