Differences in strategic decision making between CEOs and other people are interesting since CEOs make important economic decisions and impact values and norms in society. Our study combines a large stratified random sample of 199 CEOs of medium-size firms with a carefully selected control group...

Die Neue Institutionenökonomik stellt ergänzend zur Neoklassik die Kosten von Transaktionen in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei wird das Hauptaugenmerk auf die Institutionen gerichtet, die das menschliche Handeln beeinflussen. Welche Entwicklung nahm die Institutionenökonomik? Wo steht sie heute?

The central question will be, whether ALMPs are actually in line with the transition aim of struc-tural adjustment. Due to a lack of consistent micro-level data, theoretical considerations will be an important supplement for evaluating the Chinese concept. In order to illuminate the quantitative...

Die folgende Untersuchung wird sowohl die politisches als auch ökonomische Argumentationsebene berücksichtigen und als analytischen Rahmen verwenden. Zur Klärung der Hintergründe des chinesischamerikanischen Konflikts werden zunächst die politischen und ökonomischen Interessen der VR China...

This paper provides the first comparative analysis of different types of publicly owned banks operating in China between 1997 and 2008. Using principal component analysis and Granger-causality tests, this study shows that China's state-owned commercial banks and rural credit cooperatives did not...

We all know people we find difficult to deal with. Some we trust despite major past transgressions, others we do not. What explains the difference? Rather than looking for explanations inside the trustor–trustee dyad, we focus on the embedding social structure. Our argument focuses on two...