There are many stories of democracy but little consensus over which variables robustly determine its emergence and survival. We apply extreme bounds analysis to test the robustness of 59 factors proposed in the literature, evaluating over 3 million regressions. The most robust determinants of...

The recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution. We apply Extreme Bound Analysis (EBA) on a panel of up to 120...

This article analyses financial markets' reaction to European Central Bank's (ECB) communication. We apply a novel indicator that quantifies the contents of the ECB's introductory statements and allows disentangling ECB statements on prices, the real and the monetary sector. We provide evidence...

Seit der Novelle des Umwandlungsrechts zum 1.1.1995 bieten sich Unternehmen zahlreiche Reorganisationsmöglichkeiten durch Verschmelzung, Spaltung oder Formwechsel. In all diesen Fällen haben die außenstehenden Anteilshaber ein vitales Interesse, die Angemessenheit des Umtauschverhältnisses...