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 1994 the European Works Councils Directive was adopted. It marked a major breakthrough for workers representation at the European level. Twenty years later, however, the outcome of this legal provision remains ambivalent. While around 1,000 multinationals have set up a European Works Council,...

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...