This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team of international researchers to shed light on the entwined processes of...

Die von der Tennet TSO GmbH geplante 380-kV-Höchstspannungsleitung Wahle-Mecklar ist ein wichtiger Baustein bei der Umsetzung der Energiewende in Deutschland. Angesichts der Raumbedeutsamkeit und der überörtlichen Bedeutung dieses geplanten Neubaus wurde in enger Zusammenarbeit in den...

Die von der Tennet TSO GmbH geplante 380-kV-Höchstspannungsleitung Wahle-Mecklar ist ein wichtiger Baustein bei der Umsetzung der Energiewende in Deutschland. Angesichts der Raumbedeutsamkeit und der überörtlichen Bedeutung dieses geplanten Neubaus wurde in enger Zusammenarbeit in den...

Statisticians are constantly looking for methods of statistical inference that would be both effective and would require meeting as few assumptions as possible. Permutation tests seem to fit here, as using them makes it possible to perform statistical inference in situations where classical...

This paper re-visits the state of decentralised banking in Germany, Spain and the UK. The cross-country comparison we conducted has identified Germany as having the most decentralised banking system, followed by Spain and the UK, as expected. The development of regional and double-purpose banks,...

When looking at the Spanish banking market through a German lens, the differences between the banking markets in these countries and between decentralised and centralised systems with regard to the SME-credit decision-making process become obvious. Despite our hypotheses that Spanish savings...

As expected, this comparison of the German and the UK banking systems shows substantial differences between the countries. In the UK, savings banks disappeared long ago and other regional banks have never become important in lending to business. Instead, the five large commercial banks dominate...

A comparison of the German banking system with that of the United Kingdom (UK) and Spain shows Germany to be decentralised not only regarding the distribution of banks, but also its financial and political system more generally. Decentralised banks, which are predominantly regional savings banks...