infonet-economy

Ausgehend vom politischen Prozeβansatz diskutieren wir die Entwicklung der Ökologiebewegung in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten in mehreren westlichen Ländern. Abgesehen von Frankreich, wo sie aufgrund des spezifischen polirischen Kontextes organisatorisch schwach, in ihren Aktionen radikal und weitgehend ohne Erfolg blieb, hat diese Bewegung in den untersuchten Ländern mitgliederstarke...

This study shows that in general the impact of equity on tax evasion depends on how the taxpayer's risk aversion is affected by perceived equity. Then possible reasons are discussed why an increase in perceived equity may increase a person's risk aversion and thus lead to a decrease of evasion. An economic as well as a psychological argument are presented which can explain...

This paper purports to analyze a hospital's adoption of both product and process innovation as a quantal choice. The impacts of this decision on physicians, while depending on institutions that differ between the US and continental Europe, are shown to feed back to the hospital, influencing the profitability of the innovation. Recent changes of hospital finance give rise to...

We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate how individual happiness is affected by unemployment. Unemployment has a large and negative effect even after controlling for individual specific fixed effects. Nonparticipation, in contrast, is much less harmful to happiness. Further, we decompose the total well-being costs of unemployment and find that well above three...

This article studies several attributes of a firm's long-run decisions about organizational structure, attributes that affect the firm's short-run innovative activity. We focus on flexibility, which lowers the future costs of implementing innovations, and research capabilities, which improve the future opportunities for innovation. We consider two dimensions of innovation:...

The historical institutionalist tradition in comparative politics commonly assigns analytical primacy to political institutions. Whereas this polity-centeredness may be quite justifiable for purposes of comparative public policy, students of comparative political economy should pay systematic attention not only to economic institutions but also to a range of economic-structural...