Neue Ausgabe des 'Atlas der Globalisierung' zum Thema Postwachstumsgesellschaft mit über 300 Karten und Grafiken. Wirtschaftswachstum gilt als Allheilmittel im modernen Kapitalismus. Doch auf einem begrenzten Planeten kann es kein unbegrenztes Wachstum geben. So kann es nicht weitergehen. Aber...

The political geography of campaign contributions -- The timing of presidential campaign contributions -- Participation in the early financing of presidential candidates -- A tale of two parties? : do republicans and democratic contenders have different geographical fundraising bases? -- Median...

We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium with a government's type biased in favor of the minority. We propose a measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...

"Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the endogeneity of ownership structures. We develop and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large...

"How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global...