Since trust correlates with economic development and in turn economic development associates with political regime, we conjecture that there may be a relationship between trust and political regime. Without looking for any casual inference, we investigate if trust aggregated on the country level...

This paper analyses the regional impacts of direct payments on the labour and land productivity of European farms. The basic assumption of the research is that direct CAP subsidies have a positive effect on productivity and efficiency. This was tested by quantitative regression-analysis models,...

What is the tenet upon which the public policy of lockdown by fiat experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic is based on? The work approaches this question about the rationale of the mandatory shelter-in-place policy as an interpersonal exchange of rights, but where the exchange occurs coercively...

The effect of the betterment of enforced intellectual property rights (IPRs) provisions on services export concentration has been investigated. The analysis has used a panel dataset of 103 countries (both developed and developing countries) over the period of 1985-2014. It has revealed that...

Our paper aims at improving the understanding for the role of public employment agencies in job matching. We analyze the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic...

We analyze the effect of different pricing schemes on horizontally differentiated firms' ability to sustain collusion when customers have the possibility to combine (or mix) products to achieve a better match of their preferences. To this end, we compare two-part tariffs with linear prices and...

Auch wenn die Orientierung am Shareholder-Value-Ansatz in den letzten Jahren immer weiter aus der Mode gekommen ist, erfreut sich die wertorientierte Steuerung von Unternehmen – insbesondere in ihrer nachhaltigen Variante mit dem Fokus auf alle Stakeholder – einer zunehmenden Beliebtheit....

Covid-19 bestimmt seit dem Jahreswechsel 2019/20 weltweit weite Teile des öffentlichen und privaten Lebens. Die Einschränkungen in vielen Lebensbereichen können nicht ohne gesellschaftliche und ökonomische Folgen bleiben. In diesem Working-Paper wird versucht, einige Auswirkungen auf unsere...