This book gives a comprehensive description of macroeconometric modeling and its development over time. The first part depicts the history of macroeconometric model building, starting with Jan Tinbergen's and Lawrence R. Klein's contributions. It is unique in summarizing the development and...

The Global Cybercrime Industry and Its Structure: Relevant Actors, Motivations, Threats, and Countermeasures -- Simple Economics of Cybercrime and the Vicious Circle -- An Institutional Perspective on Cybercrimes -- Increasing Returns and Externality in Cybercrimes -- Institutional Field Evolved...

Korruption im öffentlichen Raum. Wahrnehmungen, Interpretationen, Reaktionen - Ein internationaler Vergleich -- Korruption — Individuelles Handeln im Zeichen der Globalisierung -- Starker Klientelismus — mäßige Korruption: Ein österreichisches Paradoxon? -- Zum Verständnis der Welle an...

This open access book provides answers to key open questions concerning competition policy in emerging economies, with a focus on South Eastern Europe. The contributions address two major issues. One is the design of competition policy and the national competition authorities that enforce it,...

During the past few years all the regions of Europe have suffered from the effects of the World Financial Crisis. Most notably in Eastern Europe, countries have adopted different approaches to combat the crisis and the impact has been varying - politically, economically and socially. This book...

Conventional wisdom recommends the superiority of private ownership of enterprises. The reality confronts it with a rich diversity in ownership and governance structures. This volume examines five types of unorthodox ownership and governance form emerging in the industrial sector across major...

Acknowlegements and Foreward -- 1.Introduction: Global perspectives on Ethics in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises -- Global overviews -- 2. AFRICA: Ethics and sustainability within SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa: Enabling, constraining and contaminating relationships by Mollie Painter-Morland and...

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues. More importantly, it shifts the mode of governance of...

Part 1 - Theoretical and Conceptual Framing of Climate Change Governance -- Part2 - Case Studies I : Policy-related and Governmental Approaches -- Part 3 - Case Studies II: Business-related and Technical Approaches

This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools,...