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Without question, technological developments during the 2000s have changed society fundamentally. Much as earlier industrial revolutions redrew economic and political arrangements, the ongoing IT and…

The negative aspects of large CEO pay and the associated incentives have been a hot political issue in many countries. Our research identifies some positive aspects of CEO incentives in a broader econ…

Ever since the first steps towards European integration were taken in the early 1950s, the relationship between the nation-state and the European Union has been a crucial issue. Throughout the years a…

The world is in a state of upheaval. In the last decade, much of public debate has been dedicated to global power shifts away from the United States and Europe and towards countries with strong econom…

The paper is an interesting effort to address a topical issue considering the 12th Chinese Fiveyear Plan, the global race for inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and for new jobs and the gradual Ch…

After the breakdown of the fixed exchange rate system in the early 1970 the debate about the appropriate measurement and management of exchange rate risk has been nearly continuous. Increased turbulen…