Ownership of publicly listed German companies has undergone significant changes in recent years. The aim of this report is to document these trends since 2007 and analyze the extent to which firms that compete in the same product market are owned by the same investors, which is known as common...

Die Studie untersucht die Berichterstattung zur griechischen Staatsschuldenkrise im ersten Halbjahr 2015 in der deutschen Medienöffentlichkeit am Beispiel bundesweiter Tageszeitungen sowie der Onlineplattform "Spiegel Online". Mittels quantitativer Inhaltsanalyse der Artikel zur griechischen...

In the last years access to research data has made a lot of progress in EU countries. Nevertheless transnational access to confidential microdata - although there are some developments like "Data without Boundaries" - is still complicated and needs improvement. The first part of the paper...

Although the phase of euphoria seems to be over, policymakers and regional agencies have maintained their interest in cluster policy. Modern cluster theory provides reasons for positive external effects that may accrue from interaction in a group of proximate enterprises operating in common and...

Strong regional clusters are increasingly seen as a response to economic globalization by policy makers and regional development agencies. The reasoning of competitive advantages of countries and regions with enterprises organized in clusters has mainly been popularized by Porter (1990, 1998,...