Verbraucherpolitische Maßnahmen müssen dort ansetzen, wo sich Verbraucher nicht selbst schützen können. Notwendige Bedingung für eine effektive Gestaltung verbraucherpolitischer Maßnahmen ist daher das Wissen um das tatsächliche Verhalten von Verbrauchern. Gerade im Bereich...

Verbraucherpolitische Maßnahmen müssen dort ansetzen, wo sich Verbraucher nicht selbst schützen können. Notwendige Bedingung für eine effektive Gestaltung verbraucherpolitischer Maßnahmen ist daher das Wissen um das tatsächliche Verhalten von Verbrauchern. Gerade im Bereich...

"Understanding the determinants of real estate investment performance is a necessary precondition for successful portfolio management. In particular the relationships between real estate returns and key economic factors such as GDP, total investment as well as unemployment, bank and inflation...

Diversification in real estate portfolio management can be mainly differentiated in geographic or property-type based strategies. Within geographic diversification, risk reduction can be achieved through different strategies. Diversification benefits through international diversification have...

The currently observable flight of investors out of investment funds is counterintuitive even in a crisis situation, because they forego the benefits of the collective investment offered by the funds. In order to unveil the reasons for this development we analyze the internal governance...

Although the economic recovery seems off to a stronger start than anticipated earlier, there are considerable differences between the various regions. Emerging and developing economies are expected to benefit from strong internal demand while for most advanced economies the recovery is expected...

This study provides a detailed analysis to regional office real estate markets in the United Kingdom. A vector error correction (VEC) approach is applied to a unique panel dataset that covers the time period from 1981 until 2004 and allows a disaggregation to the NUTS 2 level. Long-run...