This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation and implement structural reforms for reorganizing...

Adolf Heinz Malinsky – Anmerkungen zu seiner Lebensarbeit -- Adolf Heinz Malinsky – Anmerkungen zu seiner Lebensarbeit -- Umweltcontrolling und Sustainability Performance Measurement -- Wie lässt sich die operative Umweltleistung von Unternehmen messen? – Streiflichter auf ausgewählte...

Vorwort -- 1. Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung als Innovationsquelle -- 2. Unternehmerische Nachhaltigkeitsinnovationen durch nachhaltiges Unternehmertum -- 3. CSR-Innovationen in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen -- 4. Verantwortung und Innovation: Corporate Social Innovation -- 5....

Gastronomie als Forschungsfeld -- Die kulinarischen Grundeinstellungen der Gäste der Wiener Gastronomie -- Veränderungsprozesse in der Gemeinschaftsverpflegung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Umsetzung nachhaltiger Speisepläne -- Gastronomie und Culinary Tourism -- Weinangebot,...

The Greek economic crisis has imperilled the stability of the eurozone, generating much global anxiety. Policymakers, analysts, and the media have daily debated the course of the Greek economy, prescribing ways to move forward. This collection of essays progressively moves from an analysis of...

New Tools of Economic Dynamics gives an introduction and overview of recently developed methods and tools, most of them developed outside economics, to deal with the qualitative analysis of economic dynamics. It reports the results of a three-year research project by a European and Latin...

Shedding light on some of the most pressing open questions in the analysis of high frequency data, this volume presents cutting-edge developments in high frequency financial econometrics. Coverage spans a diverse range of topics, including market microstructure, tick-by-tick data, bond and...

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on...

“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.” - Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA "The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine...