This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies underscore the importance of path dependence, often as...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Somali People: Between Trusteeship and Independence -- 3 Analysis of the Economic System of Somalia -- 4 Companies and Firms in Italian Somalia -- 5 International Aid to Somalia -- Conclusion -- Appendices

This paper exploits exogenous variation in the adoption of copyrights - as a result of the timing of Napoléon's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we compare changes in the creation of new operas across states...

What factors affect the diffusion of new economic institutions? This paper examines this question by exploiting the introduction of the first regularized patent system, which appeared in the Venetian Republic in 1474. We begin by developing a model that links patenting activity of craft guilds...

Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes that Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail, and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the influence of this work represents a...

Why were the poorer countries of the European periphery latecomers to the Age of Mass Migration? We test the diffusion hypothesis, which argues that mass emigration was delayed because it was primarily governed by a gradual process of spatial diffusion of migration networks. We propose a model...

This book investigates the perceptions of political actors towards the creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. The research is largely based on personal interviews conducted with key informants in central banks, finance ministries, employers' organizations and trade unions in...

Grundlagen -- Ablauf von NPL-Transaktionen und Bewertung von NPL -- Workout durch Banken oder Dritte? -- Motivationsfaktoren für die Durchführung von NPL-Transaktionen -- Problembereiche bei NPL-Transaktionen -- Empirische Betrachtung von Motivationsfaktoren bzw. Problembereichen --...

Neue Produkte erfolgreich in den Markt einzuführen stellt heute mehr denn je eine zwingende Voraussetzung für den nachhaltigen Unternehmenserfolg dar. Dies gilt besonders für Hersteller schnelldrehender Konsumgüter, die neben einem zusehends mächtigeren Handel, mit kurzen...

Das Managementkonzept der Marke gilt im B-to-C-Geschäft seit Jahren als Wunderwaffe zur Differenzierung der eigenen Leistung im Wettbewerb. Hingegen herrscht in Wissenschaft und Praxis Unsicherheit und Uneinigkeit über die Wirksamkeit von Markeninvestitionen im B-to-B-Geschäft. Björn...