The current landscape of Global History literature appears dominated by a rather asymmetrical dichotomy between Eurocentric analyses of the cumulative emergence of the West and global history which reduces the significance of this transition by blending it into very long-term perspectives. This...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der außenpolitischen Performanz der EU und stützt sich dabei auf drei verschiedene Betrachtungsweisen: den Realismus und die Theorien der EU als imperiale bzw. der EU als normative Macht. Mit Hilfe eines auf Basis dieser drei Theorien entwickelten...

Die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (GASP)und die Europäische Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik(ESVP) gehören heute zu den dynamischsten undmeist diskutierten Politikbereichen der EuropäischenUnion (EU). Laut Javier Solana, dem Hohen Vertreterder GASP, bildet die ESVP das...

The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) andthe European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) aretoday among the most dynamic and most frequentlydiscussed policy topics within the EuropeanUnion. Developing a European profile in foreign andsecurity policy has become one of the key...

Three step process: Each valuation process can - independent of its economic or ecological focus - be subdivided into three stages: The selection of the target object, the determination of the effects to be analyzed and, last but not least, the monetary or non-monetary valuation of these...

At present Germany experiences a shake-up of the hospital industry, following the introduction of a DRG-based hospital budgeting system. Hospital owners re-evaluate their assets and adapt their strategies to the new regulatory environment. Benchmarking studies play a vital role in assessing own...

Estimates of the marginal product of capital can help forecast economic growth, test competing businesscycle theories, and perform cost-benefit analysis. This paper presents annual and quarterly estimatesof the marginal product of capital in the U.S. separately for the residential and...

Überall auf der Welt haben Regierungen Pläne für ultra-schnelle nationale Breitbandnetzeangekündigt. Netzbetreiber, insbesondere Incumbents, scheinen dagegen wenigerbegeistert über groß angelegte Investitionsprogramme in Glasfasernetze zu sein.Wenn sie investieren, scheinen sie mehr auf...

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improveenvironmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals valuethe environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representinga new non-market valuation...

We run a computerised experiment of network formation where allconnections are bene…cial and only direct links are costly. Players simul-taneously submit link proposals; a connection is made only when bothplayers involved agree. We use both simulated and experimentally gen-erated data to test...