Given the growing importance of cohesion policy within the European Union (EU) during the last two decades, public and scientific interest in the role of EU policies for regional disparities has risen continuously. Recent empirical studies on the impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)...

This article assesses the relationship between transfers arising from EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and convergence in both farmers' revenues and interpersonal income redistribution using a sample of 26 regions in the state of Hesse, Germany, over the period 1979 to 2004 and 1991 to...

Gegenstand und Konzeption der Arbeit -- Forschungsleitende Aufarbeitung und Systematisierung des Erfahrungsobjekts ‚Entrepreneurship wissensintensiver Dienstleister’ -- Anforderungen und Auswahl einer Referenztheorie zur Untersuchung der Forschungsfrage -- Die ‚Competence-based Theory of...

This study provides a critical analysis of the growth regressions in Burnside and Dollar [2000]. First, we analyse the relationship between aid and government expenditure in a modified neo-classical growth model. One of the main results of the analysis is that while good policies spur growths...

Integration of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) into the European Union (EU) has become more a question of timing than a question whether it will or should be made. Since one of the objectives of the EU is to establish a system ensuring competition in the internal market is not...

Die wachsende Verbreitung von FuE-Kooperationen zwischen konkurrierenden Unternehmen führt zu der Frage, ob, und wenn ja, unter welchen Bedingungen diese Kooperationen den Wettbewerb beschränken. Die Analyse der möglichen Wohlfahrtseffekte, die von FuE-Kooperationen ausgehen, zeigt, daß sie...

After a massive international campaign calling attention to the development impact of foreign debt, the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative is now underway. But will the HIPC Initiative meet its high expectations? Will debt relief substantially raise growth? How do we make sure...