Wissenschaftliche LiteraturAnalysisVWL

Chong Dae Kim

Three Essays on Housing Market Analysis in Germany

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This book is made up of three distinct papers, all of which focus on real house prices in Germany. The German economy is especially interesting for this endeavor as real house prices, until recently, have been falling steadily over the last twenty five years.

The approach of this book is to first…

Xu Wang

Modeling China‘s Economic Growth Path

A Dynamic Analysis of Pension and Tax Reforms

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

The fast economic growth of China in the last three decades has impressed economists around the globe. How did China succeed to keep a high growth rate in such a long period? Which costs and risks could the rapid development of China imply? How could the historical success be maintained in the foreseeable future? A…

Michael Carlberg & Arne Hansen

Economic Analysis of a Great Recession

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Asset price bubbles refer to both real estate bubbles and stock market bubbles. The collapse of an asset price bubble means that asset prices go down while liabilities do not. As a result, millions of people have impaired balance sheets. Put another way, millions of people are in debt. In order to reduce their…

Martin Schneider

Resource Wealth and Sustainable Development

A Comparative Analysis of the GCC Countries

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

Natural resource-rich countries that are dependent on revenues generated from the sale of the resources, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates face several challenges. They can be classified as challenges arising by nature…

Philipp Haenle

Agglomeration and Sorting – Determinants of Regional Productivity Differentials

A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Regionale Produktivitätsunterschiede zwischen städtischen und ländlichen Regionen werden gewöhnlich mit steigenden Skalenerträgen aufgrund von Agglomeration erklärt. Diese Skalenerträge nennt man daher auch Agglomerationsökonomien. Das Werk trägt zur Literatur bei, indem es den Zusammenhang zwischen…

Gunnar Dittrich

Effizienzanalyse im stationären Sektor

Eine Untersuchung anhand der Bundesländer Bayern, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Sachsen

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Warum besteht ein Interesse, die Effizienz deutscher Krankenhäuser zu messen? In einem reinen Wettbewerbsmarkt würde es keinen Grund geben, die Effizienz zu messen. Nur die effizienten Anbieter würden auf dem Markt überleben. Der Markt für Krankenhausleistungen entspricht jedoch nicht den Bedingungen eines…

Björn Plaschnick

On the Nature of Fundamental-based and Panic-based Bank Runs

An Analysis of the Origins of Bank Runs

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

In the last decades, bank runs appeared to be a relic of the past. The run incidents during the recent global financial crisis have however shown that the threat of bank runs has not vanished and still represents a severe problem for the stability and performance of modern economies‘ banking systems. [...]

Andreas Graichen

Is Fairtrade Labeling Fair?

A Welfare Analysis

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The discussion about the effectiveness of fairtrade labeling in terms of economic efficiency and as a measure for alleviating poverty goes on since several years. While the fairtrade movement claims that it is necessary to pay a „fair“ price to the producers to allow them to live a decent life, free-market…

Burcu Erdogan

Analyzing Convergence/Divergence in European Financial Markets

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The European Union implemented significant financial reforms in order to facilitate financial integration since the beginning of the 1980s. With the introduction of the euro, the process of integrating financial markets accelerated. All the restructuring efforts reflect an expectation of positive effects from a…

Klaas Würzburg

Minimum Wages and Employment

A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Innovative Beschäftigungspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

Die Auswirkungen von Mindestlöhnen auf das Beschäftigungsniveau werden seit längerer Zeit kontrovers diskutiert. Der Autor Klaas Würzburg hat das Ziel, die Hintergründe dieser Debatte nüchtern und unideologisch zu analysieren und zu bereichern.

Es werden zunächst verschiedene modelltheoretische Ansätze…