@article{ClemensHeinemann2018, author = {Clemens, Christiane and Heinemann, Maik}, title = {The effects of international financial integration in a model with heterogeneous firms and credit frictions}, series = {Macroeconomic Dynamics}, volume = {23}, journal = {Macroeconomic Dynamics}, number = {7}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {1365-1005}, doi = {10.1017/S1365100517000979}, pages = {2815 -- 2844}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This paper examines the consequences of international financial integration in a two-sector standard incomplete markets model with occupational choice under risk and financial constraints affecting entrepreneurial activity. We endogenize international productivity differences and discuss the implications of international integration for the macroeconomy, inequality, and welfare. Lending countries are characterized by tighter domestic constraints and experience an increase in gross national product, whereas the gross domestic product effect is ambiguous. We conclude that international integration is beneficial only for economies where there are substantial financial constraints on entrepreneurial activity. Otherwise, a majority of households suffer, due to the unequal distribution of welfare gains and losses across the heterogeneous population.}, language = {en} } @article{Grum2018, author = {Grum, Marcus}, title = {Manufacturing Analytics}, series = {Von Industrial Internet of Things zu Industrie 4.0. Band 2}, journal = {Von Industrial Internet of Things zu Industrie 4.0. Band 2}, publisher = {Gito}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-95545-261-2}, pages = {149 -- 190}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @article{FossenMartin2018, author = {Fossen, Frank M. and Martin, Thorsten}, title = {Entrepreneurial dynamics over space and time}, series = {Regional science and urban economics}, volume = {70}, journal = {Regional science and urban economics}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0166-0462}, doi = {10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2018.04.004}, pages = {204 -- 214}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Entrepreneurship is a regional and persistent phenomenon. We jointly investigate spatial dependence and serial dynamics of new business formation. Using panel data from all 402 German counties for 1996-2011, we estimate dynamic spatial panel data models of start-up activity in the high-tech and manufacturing industries. We consider regions of different sizes and systematically search for the most suitable spatial weights matrices. We find substantial spatial dependence as well as time persistence of start-up activity, especially in the high-tech industry. This suggests that local start-up activity has positive extemal effects and that entrepreneurship policy could play an efficiency-enhancing role.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Kraft2018, author = {Kraft, Frederik}, title = {Be Creative, Now!}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414009}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {VII, 230}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Purpose - This thesis set out to explore, describe, and evaluate the reality behind the rhetoric of freedom and control in the context of creativity. The overarching subject is concerned with the relationship between creativity, freedom, and control, considering freedom is also seen as an element of control to manage creativity. Design/methodology/approach - In-depth qualitative data gathered from at two innovative start-ups. Two ethnographic studies were conducted. The data are based on participatory observations, interviews, and secondary sources, each of which included a three months field study and a total of 41 interviews from both organizations. Findings - The thesis provides explanations for the practice of freedom and the control of creativity within organizations and expands the existing theory of neo-normative control. The findings indicate that organizations use complex control systems that allow a high degree of freedom that paradoxically leads to more control. Freedom is a cover of control, which in turn leads to creativity. Covert control even results in the responsibility to be creative outside working hours. Practical implications - Organizations, which rely on creativity might use the results of this thesis. Positive workplace control of creativity provides both freedom and structure for creative work. While freedom leads to organizational members being more motivated and committing themselves more strongly to their and the organization's goals, and a specific structure also helps to provide the requirements for creativity. Originality/value - The thesis provides an insight into an approach to workplace control, which has mostly neglected in creativity research and proposes a modified concept of neo-normative control. It serves to provide a further understanding of freedom for creativity and to challenge the liberal claims of new control forms.}, language = {en} } @article{Lass2018, author = {Lass, Sander}, title = {Robotik II}, series = {Von Industrial Internet of Things zu Industrie 4.0. Band 2}, journal = {Von Industrial Internet of Things zu Industrie 4.0. Band 2}, publisher = {Gito}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-95545-261-2}, pages = {119 -- 147}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @article{Lass2018, author = {Lass, Sander}, title = {Robotik I}, series = {Von Industrial Internet of Things zu Industrie 4.0. Band 2}, journal = {Von Industrial Internet of Things zu Industrie 4.0. Band 2}, publisher = {Gito}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-95545-261-2}, pages = {75 -- 118}, year = {2018}, language = {de} } @article{KalkuhlFernandezMilanSchwerhoffetal.2018, author = {Kalkuhl, Matthias and Fernandez Milan, Blanca and Schwerhoff, Gregor and Jakob, Michael and Hahnen, Maren and Creutzig, Felix}, title = {Can land taxes foster sustainable development?}, series = {Land use policy : the international journal covering all aspects of land use}, volume = {78}, journal = {Land use policy : the international journal covering all aspects of land use}, publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd.}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0264-8377}, doi = {10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.008}, pages = {338 -- 352}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Economists argue that land rent taxation is an ideal form of taxation as it causes no deadweight losses. Nevertheless, pure land rent taxation is rarely applied. This paper revisits the case of land taxation for developing countries. We first provide an up-to-date review on land taxation in development countries, including feasibility and implementation challenges. We then simulate land tax reforms for Rwanda, Peru, Nicaragua and Indonesia, based on household surveys. We find that (i) land taxes provide a substantial untapped potential for tax revenues at minimal deadweight losses; that (ii) linear land value taxes tend to put a high relative burden on poor households as land ownership is pervasive; (iii) non-linear tax schemes could avoid adverse effects on the poor; and that (iv) with technological advances, administrative costs of land taxes have reduced substantially and are outweighed by tax revenues and co-benefits of formalized land tenure. Enforcement and compliance remain, however, a key challenge.}, language = {en} } @article{Bunk2018, author = {Bunk, Bettina}, title = {The dynamics of donor and domestic elite interaction in Mozambique}, series = {Conflict, Security \& Development}, volume = {18}, journal = {Conflict, Security \& Development}, number = {4}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1467-8802}, doi = {10.1080/14678802.2018.1483555}, pages = {321 -- 346}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This paper analyses the interaction of domestic political elites and external donors against the backdrop of Mozambique's decentralisation process. The empirical research at national and local levels supports the hypothesis that informal power structures influence the dynamics of this interaction. Consequently, this contributes to an outcome of externally induced democratisation different to what was intended by external actors. The decentralisation process has been utilised by ruling domestic elites for political purposes. Donors have rather focused on the technical side and ignored this informal dimension. By analysing the diverging objectives and perceptions of external and internal actors, as well as the instrumentalisation of formal democratic structures, it becomes clear, that the 'informal has to be seen as normal'. At a theoretical level, the analysis contributes to elite-oriented approaches of post-conflict democratisation by adding 'the informal' as an additional factor for the dynamics of external-internal interaction. At a policy level, external actors need to take more into account informal power structures and their ambivalence for state-building and democratisation.}, language = {en} } @misc{PoppenhagenTemmen2018, author = {Poppenhagen, Nicole and Temmen, Jens}, title = {Across currents: Connections between Atlantic and (Trans) Pacific studies}, series = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, volume = {15}, journal = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1478-8810}, doi = {10.1080/14788810.2017.1394131}, pages = {149 -- 159}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{PaganelliSchumacher2018, author = {Paganelli, Maria Pia and Schumacher, Reinhard}, title = {The vigorous and doux soldier}, series = {History of European ideas}, volume = {44}, journal = {History of European ideas}, number = {8}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0191-6599}, doi = {10.1080/01916599.2018.1509225}, pages = {1141 -- 1152}, year = {2018}, abstract = {If war is an inevitable condition of human nature, as David Hume suggests, then what type of societies can best protect us from defeat and conquest? For David Hume, commerce decreases the relative cost of war and promotes technological military advances as well as martial spirit. Commerce therefore makes a country militarily stronger and better equipped to protect itself against attacks than any other kind of society. Hume does not assume commerce would yield a peaceful world nor that commercial societies would be militarily weak, as many contemporary scholars have argued. On the contrary, for him, military might is a beneficial consequence of commerce.}, language = {en} }