Law, economics, social sciences

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...

How should learning objects be selected so that they can develop the human ability that is necessary to actively help shape the life and work environment of the students? This thesis presents a model that can be used to make better use of the degrees of freedom that were transferred to teachers in the vocational education system through the introduction of the learning fields, and would thus encourage further curricular interventions and discussions. Details Title: Fields of learning as a...

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...

There are tensions in the intensification of economic exchange between China and Germany. This work attempts to identify and analyze the causes of these tensions. Various analysis methods from the theory of international relations and political science are used. The bilateral relations between China and Germany from 1990 to 2009 in normal and crisis mode were selected as concrete research objects for a case analysis. The focus of the investigations is on the relationship between foreign policy and political culture...

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...

The monograph is a compilation of my Juris Doctor degree thesis and my Master's in Law degree dissertation. The thesis is a general overview of justice courts and the dissertation is an examination of the adequacy of a search performed by a Federal Agency of the United States government regarding search requests under the Freedom of Information Act . Details Title: A Legal Codex Subtitle: A Law Thesis and a Law Dissertation Author: Dr. Bradley S.Tice Edition: 1st edition Published:...

The problem of publicity when assigning chattels as security is as old as the assignment itself. The loan collateral, which is often used in practice, seems to function smoothly for the most part. A closer look, however, reveals a number of weaknesses and dogmatic distortions due to the lack of publicity. Last but not least, the German security assignment must also be able to be measured in an international perspective. It is precisely here that Germany is largely isolated with...

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...

Nowadays it is vital for companies to offer their products all over the world in order to be successful. The economic rise of emerging markets such as China, India or the Middle East increases the importance of those new customer segments, as their contribution towards the companies profits continuously grow. To further exploit the potential of emerging markets, it is important to understand how to acquire and retain those culturally different customers. Existing but scarce academic literature in Variety Seeking...

The lack of improved water and sanitary infrastructure still kills many people in developing countries each year. This book gives useful insights into how development projects have an impact in practice and why there is a possibility that projects fail to have positive outcomes. In this book, the national water and sanitation program in rural Benin is analyzed. A difference-in-difference analysis is combined with a phasing-in approach to a sample of 200 villages in the departments of Mono, Couffo and...