In 2005, the President of the Bank of Italy blocked the cross-border acquisition of two Italian banks for "prudential reasons and formal errors". Following these events, the EU Commission brought actions…
This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of competitive market structures for the electricity sector, as developed in the economics…
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade.…
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) constitute a disruption to the working environment of the inventive labor force of the acquired company. If inventors would respond with a decline of their patent productivity or…
This paper provides a new approach to assess the impact of organisational changes fostering employee involvement, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage…
In this paper we employ a time series econometric framework to explore the structural determinants of the spread between the euro overnight rate and the ECB's policy rate (EONIA spread) aiming to explain the…
Wir diskutieren die Faktoren für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung eines Systems des betrieblichen Vorschlagswesens und anderer Maßnahmen zur Stimulierung des Innovationserfolgs. Im Anschluss wird die Wirkung des…
Die Vermittlung von Bewerbern und offenen Stellen hat in der Diskussion um die Reduktion der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland einen hohen Stellenwert eingenommen. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei der Reformkurs der…
