Background: In response to calls for actionable research that considers ongoing pandemic risk dynamics, we explore how risks experienced and risk mitigation techniques used have changed during the first year of the pandemic. Methods: We used a survey and studied six cases; data were collected...

Die nachfolgende Arbeit beschreibt in drei Teilen die Einführung der Datenschutz- Grundverordnung (DS-GVO). Dabei wird eine Variante zur Umsetzung der Vorgaben der am 25.05.2018 eingeführten Datenschutz-Grundverordnung ebenfalls aufgezeigt. Im ersten Teil werden die relevanten Artikel der...

Socio-ecologic, socio-economic, and socio-technical transitions are opportunities that require fundamental changes in the system. These will encounter matters associated with security, service adoption by end-users, infrastructure and availability. The purpose of this study is to examine and...

Originality/value-this model contributed to the vast literature on models of change and risk management within organisations, but was not validated empirically for reliability of the factors, and on financial services providers within small jurisdictions. Therefore, the significance and...

Luisa Dörr prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in February 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of three distinct empirical essays...

In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities' expenditures depend on the share of citizens with foreign background out of the total population. Empirical analyses make use of Finnish panel data from 295 municipalities and 202 migrant nationalities for the period 1987- 2018. It turns out...

The basic objective of the work was to verify the hypothesis regarding the existence of the correlation between the income potential of the municipalities and the efficiency (relative) of their activity. The basis for such a hypothesis were some concerns as to the validity of the assumed system...

The public finance system in force in Poland provides for a trade fair fee (Polish - "op±ata targowa") as part of municipalities' own revenues. The trade fair fee is collected from persons selling at marketplaces located in the municipality. It constitutes own income for the commune's budget...

The article presents an analysis of the level of income flowing to the municipalities\' budget from the permit fees to sell alcoholic beverages in selected municipalities. For the purposes of the article, three objectives have been set for determining the level of revenue from the fee....

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial het-erogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This heterogeneity is not driven by differences across...