As the brewing industry underwent major changes and brewing became ever more science-based in the course of the 19 th century, the need for a more science-based brewer's education grew. The article explores the reforms and diversification of brewing education, starting with the traditional way...

Der touristische Arbeitsmarkt steht vor großen Herausforderungen, wie dem Arbeitskräftemangel oder der hohen Fluktuation der Arbeitskräfte in Folge der ausgeprägten saisonalen Schwankungen des Personalbedarfs. Hinzu kamen die Einschränkungen und Maßnahmen im Zuge der COVID-19 Pandemie....

Die erneute Klage gegen den bundesstaatlichen Finanzausgleich seitens der bayerischen Staatsregierung zeigt die bayerische Entschlossenheit, das bisherige System zu verändern. Dabei wird unter anderem auf die Normierung der Grunderwerbsteuer und die Einwohnerveredelung, die im Rahmen des...

Um Devisen beim Baumwollimport zu sparen, regte das NS-Regime seit 1934 die Gründung von regionalen Zellwollewerken an, in denen aus heimischem Zellstoff (halb)synthetische Textilfasern hergestellt wurden. Eigentümer dieser Werke waren regionale Textilunternehmen.

Do voters place their trust in tried and tested leaders when uncertainty is high or do they prefer a new slate of leaders who are arguably more competent? To study this question, we make use of hand-collected data on 402,385 candidates who competed in open-list local council elections...

A burgeoning literature on repression against civilians argues that exposure to violence changes victims' identities by strengthening attachment to the in-group and creates downstream effects for political and social behaviour that persist across generations. In this paper, we ask whether...

There are a number of reasons for considering the cross-border dimension of Bavaria's spatial development at the present time. First, there is a new awareness of cross-border development issues on the level of the federal state of Bavaria. This is particularly related to the border between...

In 2015/2016 the Federal Republic of Germany and Bavaria were greatly challenged by the refugee wave from the Middle East, Afghanistan and various African states, and its management. The south-east Bavarian border areas were particularly affected due to their location at the end of the Balkan...

This article examines the implementation and effectiveness of the European structural and investment funds with regard to regional governance. The study uses the example of development processes in two border regions in Bavaria, the district of Cham on the Bavarian-Czech border and the district...

The aim of this paper is to determine whether since 2000 the areas along the border with the Czech Republic have developed in such a way that a location on the border is no longer practically synonymous with structural weakness or whether this is at least less pronounced than it was. Living and...

The EUREGIO EGRENSIS cooperation area was established in 1990 and is acknowledged and appreciated by political actors. It serves here as a heuristic for a multitude of spatial processes. On the one hand, it reflects the changing political and economic conditions of cross-border cooperation...

This introductory article has three goals. First, it briefly introduces Bavaria's border areas. Second, the paper introduces three institutional and political perspectives to explain the governance arrangements and processes in the border areas, namely institutional ambiguity,...

Die Corona-Krise untermauerte die Notwendigkeit unkonventioneller Datenquellen zur zeitnahen Beurteilung der aktuellen Wirtschaftslage. Besonders schwierig ist die Datenlage der Bundesländer. In diesem Forschungsbericht wird untersucht, ob sich hochfrequente Angaben zum bayerischen...

Der demografische Wandel stellt Bayern in den nächsten Jahrzehnten vor große Herausforderungen. Ohne Zuwanderung würde die Bevölkerung in Bayern bis 2040 um 5 % abnehmen. Um das Wirtschaftswachstum in Bayern aufrechtzuerhalten, ist eine umfangreiche Zuwanderung erforderlich. Deutschland...

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the "Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...

This paper analyzes the effects of different energy transition paths on regional value added and on employment. We extend traditional input-output analysis by taking into account the scarcity of factors of production, and construct a dataset incorporating the regional dimension and specific...

This paper analyzes the effects of different energy transition paths on regional value added and on employment. We extend traditional input-output analysis by taking into account the scarcity of factors of production, and construct a dataset incorporating the regional dimension and specific...

Elections may take place in precarious environments that even pose health risks. I consider the case of Bavaria, where close to ten million people were asked to vote in the municipal elections on March 15 of 2020, to quantify the toll of elections in a pandemic. Despite declaring a state of...

Implications of Industry 4.0 for enterprises in Upper Bavaria are still unclear. This working paper examines how key technologies of Industry 4.0 impact on performance objectives. The research methodology is based on a quantitative study carried out in in the larger area of Upper Bavaria with a...

Der europäische Binnenmarkt ist die wichtigste und erfolgreichste Errungenschaft des europäischen Einigungsprozesses. Das Ziel, den Handel, den Kapitalverkehr und die Mobilität von Personen zwischen den EU Staaten von bürokratischen Barrieren zu entlasten, ist in vielen Bereichen erreicht...