Die meisten Studien zur Rückkehr von Frauen in das Erwerbsleben nach einer Erwerbsunterbrechung konzentrieren sich in ihren Untersuchungen auf die Wirkung individueller und partnerschaftlicher Merkmale oder die Notwendigkeit einer regionalen Betreuungsinfrastruktur. Obwohl der Beruf in...

Die Beiträge dieses Discussion Papers gehen auf eine deutsch-französische Konferenz zum Thema „Exzellenz durch Steuerung? Neue Herausforderungen für das deutsche und das französische Wissenschaftssystem“ zurück, die Ende November 2007 stattfand. Anlass waren die neueren...

Today, it is increasingly common to evaluate scientific organisations. Consequently, the old debate on adequate procedures and criteria for the assessment of scientific quality is relevant again. The paper emphasizes the impact of the codes of practice on the process of judgement. Following...

Academic spin-offs are private firms founded in direct connection with a transfer of knowledge or technology from public research facilities or universities. This direct relationship is established through patents or persons who transfer to the spin-off. Based on this definition the present...

This paper presents a unified framework for characterizing symmetric equilibrium in simultaneous move, two-player, rank-order contests with complete information, in which each player’s strategy generates direct or indirect affine “spillover” effects that depend on the rank-order of her...

The paper introduces the possibility of coalition government into the theoretical study of political accountability and analyzes the accountability of coalitions as a problem of team production. It is shown that coalition governments can be held accountable in the presence of an electoral...

This paper investigates the determinants of mercenary participation in civil wars during the second half of the 20th century. We present a new dataset on mercenary activities and use it to test hypotheses derived from a simple gametheoretic model of demand and supply in the market for force. We...

Discrete choice models are used to investigate the individual’s choice among a discrete number of alternatives. The characteristics of each alternative, by means of multinomial and nested multinomial models, have been taken into account. Specifically, this study analyses the impact of...

Substantial theoretical, conceptual and empirical advances have been made in research on the implementation of EU policies during recent years. However, our findings have remained ambivalent and our theoretical insights disparate. It therefore seems high time to address some issues that cause...

Durch die Gesetze für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt wurden Organisation, Instrumente und Zuständigkeiten der Arbeitsmarktpolitik neu geordnet und neue Rahmenbedingungen für die arbeitsmarktpolitischen Aktivitäten der Bundesländer geschaffen: Diese haben in der Vergangenheit ihre...