China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent…

• Dynamism in German M&A Market Continues
• Mergers and Acquisitions Between Russia and OECD Members Collapse
• M&A Activity in Europe’s Water Industry Follows No General Trends
• US Megadeals Play Vital Role in World Oil…

We contribute to the literature on the long-run effect of fiscal consolidation on economic growth by applying a novel method for quantitative case studies. Relying on a qualitative (narrative) definition of…

• International Financial Market Data — Assessments and Expectations
• Equity Markets Expected to Recover
• Analysts Expect the Franc to Weaken
• Inflation Expectations Unchanged
• Interest Rate Expectations Unchanged
• Long-Te…

In the presence of heteroscedasticity, conventional standard errors (which assume homoscedasticity) can be biased up or down. The most common form of heteroscedasticity leads to conventional standard errors that…

• Starker Zugewinn der Konjunkturerwartungen
• Eurozone: Inflationserwartungen weitgehend unverändert
• USA: Verbesserte Konjunkturlage
• Japan: Konjunkturlage verschlechtert sich
• Großbritannien: Konjunkturerwartungen…

We conduct a framed field experiment in Indonesian fishing communities with an eye towards evaluating the potential of Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TURFs) for preserving coral reef fisheries. Conducted…

Recent multilateral climate negotiations have underlined the importance of international cooperation and the need for support from developed to developing countries to address climate change. This raises the…