economics

Strong market segmentation and rapidly changing diverse technologies, combined with increased competitive intensity, are forcing global manufacturing companies to reconsider their product development strategy. Modularization in product development is essential for these companies to compete sustainably in such an international and dynamic environment. However, companies face major challenges in the modularization of product development. This dissertation empirically analyzes the modularization of product development in global manufacturing companies with special regard given to the interrelations between product architecture and product development...

Buyer power is playing an increasing role in the competition policy discussion, especially against the background of an ever more concentrated food retail trade. Current case law as well as proceedings and investigations by the Federal Cartel Office have recently brought the topic into the focus of science.The present study comes to the conclusion that buyer power manifests itself in the form of bilateral bargaining power and provides the legal practitioner with criteria for their existence. In addition, she examines...

content The so called “European Migrant Crisis” of 2015 has renewed the attention of European leaders, and especially the German government, for Africa. The ambitious goal of Germany's "Marshall Plan for Africa" ​​is to support private sector activity on the continent and ultimately reduce unwanted migration to Europe. This book offers a review of the “economic development against migration” narrative with a focus on Germany. Starting out from a macro-perspective it first looks at the general relationship between foreign direct...

This dissertation provides an analytical and coherent presentation of the problem of a uniform monetary policy in an inhomogeneous currency area. To this end, the critical situation in the European Monetary Union is discussed, the effects of the uniform, highly expansive monetary policy of the European Central Bank are examined and possible solutions are outlined with which the current crisis can be overcome. In the first main part, in addition to the well-known characteristics of optimal currency areas, additional requirements...

More than 200 years have passed since Adam Smith described the theory of compensating wage differentials. Although theory offers a simple yet compelling explanation for wages associated with job characteristics, the empirical evidence is conflicting. So why do workers with disadvantageous working conditions earn less and not more? The theory of compensating wage differentials assumes a perfect labor market, which is not to be found in reality. The approach presented is to remove some of the assumptions. This results in...

In the field of business administration, dealing with aspects of Islamic banking has a long tradition. This naturally applies in particular to banking management theory, but researchers in the field of international business have also dealt with the topic in different ways. Despite the long study of the subject in business administration, there are still a number of research gaps, and new questions have arisen, above all as a result of the significant increase in the internationalization of Islamic banking...

Securities lending and repos are key instruments on the German financial markets. They support trading on the spot markets and make transactions on the futures markets possible in the first place. In 2008, however, they were considered the cause and accelerator of the financial crisis and some were banned. Wrongly so, as it turned out in hindsight. Rather, it is advisable to examine these instruments and use them to advantage depending on the strategy. This thesis is intended to present...

Against the background of the considerable costs of the banking crises in recent economic history, four questions are asked in this thesis: On the one hand, how banking crises arise and, derived from this question, how banking crises can be avoided. On the other hand, how banking crises develop and, derived from this question, how banking crises can be managed. The work consists of three parts: In the first part, banking crises are considered from an economic theory perspective. Building...

Against the background of the scientific discussion about the economic-political implementation options of the sustainability goal of the federal government to reduce the designated area to 30 ha/day by 2020, the book examines the reaction and thus the adaptation possibilities of companies as demanders of space to the reduction the reallocation of land. For this purpose, a company survey of small and medium-sized companies in four German planning regions took place. The author first presents the status quo of the...

It has only been more than a decade since the online games and tourism began to be popular in Europe and America and embarked on the path of industrialization in the 1990s. So far, this industry is flourishing at an alarming rate. However, this is mostly attributed to spontaneous explorations of enterprises rather than the academia, which remains basically blank in this field. Even though there are sporadic research fruits, they are just academic papers. A fairly unified theoretical framework...

Migration and its positive implications for social and economic development have increased in recognition and importance in the context of regional and national development. In addition, while international migration in the wake of globalization has received most academic attention, the World Development Report 2009 points out that the largest flows of people take place within nations. This internal migration can be an important driver of urbanization, which in turn facilitates economic growth by giving rise to agglomeration economies within cities...

This book is a collection of three essays contributing to the empirical literature on inequality and female labor force participation in developing countries. The first essay is an extension to the analysis of benefit incidence of public expenditures. Using data for Kenya it shows how different household needs for government services ought to be incorporated into the analysis to get an improved understanding of the distributional implications of public spending. The second essay revisits the hypothesis that female labor force...