By analysing the macro financial determinants of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 on 83 countries, we find that the probability of suffering the crisis in 2008 was larger for countries having higher levels of credit deposit ratio whereas it was lower for countries having higher levels of:...

Finance is a salient driver in promoting growth also by supporting changes in the specialization of production. Thus, it is paramount that finance goes to sunrise productive branches embodying more technology and so higher growth potential. Is it so in reality? We address this question by...

We analyze stakeholder management (STM) relative to cooperation and individualism within the fourth industrial revolution (FIR). STM is a recent corporate governance tool boosting cooperation and allowing representativeness of individualistic behaviors even in dialectical environments. Though...

Corporate Venture Capital bezeichnet die Finanzierung von Jungunternehmen durch etablierte Firmen. Diese Dissertation untersucht anhand eines Datensatzes die Unterschiede zwischen Venture Capital und Corporate Venture Capital und eruiert die Einflussfaktoren auf das Umsatz- und...

Unternehmensgründungen durch Personen mit Migrationshintergrund haben in Deutschland stark zugenommen. Auf regionaler Ebene werden die Gründungsaktivitäten ausländischer Personen im Zeitraum 2001-2005 mit Daten der Gewerbeanzeigenstatistik beschrieben. Die Relevanz regionaler...

This collection of articles contributes to knowledge of the German insurance industry after its liberalization by analyzing changes in the structure and choice of distribution channels in private insurance markets in the first and second article. In a third article the development of market...