Die digitale Transformation betrifft alle Bereiche eines Unternehmens, auch die Verwaltung. Im Bereich der Buchhaltung erschließen sich durch den Einsatz innovativer Technologien viele Perspektiven zur Neugestaltung der etablierten Prozesse. In diesem Beitrag sollen die Potenziale der...

This working paper studies the developments in the creditworthiness of German public real estate companies during the first quarter of 2018 and the third quarter of 2021. Besides an analysis of balance sheet data, this working paper evaluates credit risks resulting from a deteriorating...

This study investigates a disparity in hourly wages (i.e., a pay gap) between employees with an ethnic minority vs. ethnic majority background in Germany. To this aim, a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition based on a representative survey of the adult population in Germany is used. The analysis is...

Extant literature shows that well-being is one of the key drivers of attitudes towards migrants as well as preferences for asylum and refugee policies. To investigate the underpinnings of these relationships, two studies on representative samples of 600 Slovaks each were conducted before the...

The unification of the East and West German states in 1990 initiated the integration of two distinct innovation systems. In this process, the poorly functioning socialist system of East Germany adopted the formal institutions and organization of West Germany, a western-style market economy. We...

Departures from full-information rational expectation models give rise to stock price wealth effects which introduce inefficient cyclical fluctuations in the economy. Waves of optimism/pessimism affect beliefs and asset prices which influence aggregate demand through expectation-driven wealth...

I measure statistical differences in personality characteristics (personality traits, attitudes, and values) between individuals with an ethnic minority vs. ethnic majority background. This analysis might inform research on explanations of discrimination, as some researchers have proposed that...

This paper argues that the price-dividend ratio variability is explained in a large proportion by shocks affecting the subjective distribution of capital gain expectations: sentimental discount rate shocks affecting average beliefs explain at least 30% and disagreement shocks up to 20% of the...