Innovativen Unternehmen, insbesondere kleinen und mittelgroßen Betrieben (KMU) wird eine Schlüsselposition für den technischen Fortschritt und die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Industrienationen…

The global economic crisis of 2008/2009 hit many firms hard. Faced with rapidly declining sales and highly uncertain economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With…

• Mergers and Acquisitions in Germany: M&A Market Slows After Four-Year Surge
• M&A Activities in German Power Sector Ease After Fleeting High
• Crisis Overcome: M&A Activity in the Chemical Industry Stabilises on High…

We document using the ZEW panel of German stock market forecasters that weak forecasters tend to be overconfident in the sense that they provide extreme forecasts and their confidence intervals are less likely…

We study tax compliance in Slovenia using data generated in a field experiment. Small accounting companies were randomly assigned to an untreated control group and two treatment groups. Companies in the first…

In recent years, the socially responsible investing (SRI) industry has become an important segment of international capital markets by incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) factors into…

This paper shows that politicians' pressure to climb the career ladder increases bank risk exposure in their region. Chinese local politicians are set growth targets in their region that are relative to each…

• Positives Klima in der Informationswirtschaft
• Kreativität gefragt: Mitarbeiter geben wichtige Impulse für Innovationen

• Konjunkturerwartungen fallen leicht
• EZB: Inflationserwartungen nehmen weiter zu
• USA: Wirtschaftliche Dynamik schwächt sich ab
• Japan: Konjunkturelle Lage weiter verbessert
• Großbritannien: Lageeinschätzung kaum…

We assess how well measures of disagreement in qualitative survey expectations reflect disagreement in corresponding quantitative expectations. We consider a variety of measures, belonging to two categories:…

• Recovery from Swiss Franc Shock Continues
• Continued Uncertainty Regarding EUR/CHF Exchange Rate
• Downward Inflation Expectations
• No Change in Short-Term Interest Rates Expected
• High Expectations for European Stock…