Der neue Ethikkodex des Vereins für Socialpolitik nimmt Stellung gegen die Diskriminierung von Frauen und Minderheiten, sexuelle und anderweitige Belästigung im Arbeitsumfeld sowie das Schaffen eines feindseligen Umfelds. Neuere Untersuchungen zeigen, dass eine Gleichberechtigung von Frauen...

Consider a setting in which several groups of individuals with common interests (clubs) compete with each other for recognition by other individuals. Depending on the context, recognition may be expressed by these other individuals joining a club, or choosing one club to admire. Clubs compete by...

Empirical analyses of twin mortality often use models with dependent unobserved frailty terms capturing genetic and childhood environmental determinants. This ignores that mortality rates can be co-dependent due to bereavement effects, i.e. to a time-dependent causal effect of the loss of the...

The idea that genetic differences may explain a multitude of individual-level outcomes studied by economists is far from controversial. Since more datasets now contain measures of genetic variation, it is reasonable to postulate that incorporating genomic data in economic analyses will become...

Both the availability and sheer volume of data sets containing individual molecular genetic information are growing at a rapid pace. Many argue that these data can facilitate the identification of genes underlying important socio-economic outcomes, such as educational attainment and fertility....

This paper argues that in the aftermath of the global economic crisis, the centralized international monetary architecture or the global financial safety net (GFSN) set up at the Bretton Woods conference is evolving towards a more decentralized multilayered safety net comprising (i) the G20 at...

Between March 2017 and April 2017, ICEADR Institute conducted a survey among the Romanian fruit producers, in order to identify the problems they face and to highlight their opinions. The survey's results were used to find solutions for an efficient exploitation of fruits’ production....

Investigating the role of SNSs in engaging the public in scientific affairs is necessary in the modern society where risk and scientific innovations bear a high level of uncertainty. This study employs the O-S-O-R model in its attempt to examine the impact of SNSs on civic activism and the...

The identification of genes associated with human disorders is a major goal in computational biology. Although the rapid emergence of cellular network-based approaches has been successful in many instances, all of these methodologies are partially limited by the incompleteness of the...

This discussion paper presents an analysis of the performance of national (NIS) and communal irrigation systems (CIS) by region, complemented by technical and institutional assessments of 30 sample NIS and 66 sample CIS in Luzon. It shows that there is value in looking at subnational trends....

Wie keiner anderen Sportart gelingt es dem Fußball, Millionen von Menschen weltweit zu begeistern. Für die Fans ist das Spiel um den Ball mit Aufregung, Leidenschaft und Liebe verbunden. Doch Fußball ist gleichzeitig ein Big Business, das jährlich Umsätze in Milliardenhöhe generiert....

The research aims to make an introspection of the irrational behavior of the managers who, being under the pressure of sending as favorable as possible signals to different categories of users regarding the enterprise they manage, are tempted to use creative accounting techniques. The research...

Dieses praxisorientierte Buch zeigt auf, dass das Verständnis für professionelle Organisation in einem Verein zu platzieren längst überfällig ist. Des Weiteren zeigt es, wie ein Verein die neuen Medien wirksam und ressourcenschonend einsetzen kann. Mit dem Wissen um die Grundlagen der...

1. Grundlagen für Ihren Verein -- 2. Organisatorische Grundlagen -- 3. Organisatorische Elemente -- 4. Ziele im Verein -- 5. Die Aufbauorganisation im Verein -- 6. Die Ablauforganisation im Verein -- 7. Die Finanzen im Verein -- 8. Der Verein und die digitale Welt -- 9. Der Mensch im Verein --...