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2008/9 sees the 60th anniversary of the German economic and currency reform of June 20, 1948, and the adoption of the Grundgesetz on May 23, 1949, which committed the country to the ideals of a socially committed market economy. Both of these events are important points along the path taken by the Federal Republic of Germany to reach the system of a social market economy. Since the term, Social Market Economy is often used in several different contexts and sometimes to mean contradictory things, we must ask: what exactly does the term social market economy entail? What economic-ethical ideas and theories are behind it? This paper will trace the origins of the social market economy (chapter 2) and explain the central characteristics of the Freiburg School of Economics (chapter 3), one of the main pillars of the social market economy. Central to this paper is the oeuvre of Walter Eucken, one of the leading representatives of the ordoliberal Freiburg School. The aim is to identify socio-political factors of influence and inspiration on his theory of economic policy (chapter 4) and evaluate similarities to the works of Kant, Smith and other economic philosophers. Chapter 5 will seek to elucidate Eucken’s “Program of Liberty”. We shall also allow ourselves a slight diversion to elaborate on the parallels between this work and Kant’s understanding of freedom and autonomy. Chapter 6 deals with Eucken’s dual requirements of an economic and social order (i.e. functioning and humane socio-economic order). In chapter 7, we seek to answer – with considerable reference to Adam Smith – to what extent it can be assumed that self-interest and the common good are mutually compatible. This paper concludes with a few remarks about the topicality of ordoliberalism in relation to modern, German-speaking economic ethics (chapter 8).
This paper explores the various personal and intellectual links between Edmund Husserl, Rudolf and Walter Eucken. Our interdisciplinary approach gives an insight into Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology, Walter Eucken’s Ordoliberalism as well as in the interdependency between phenomenology and economics for which Rudolf Eucken’s philosophy of intellectual life plays an important role. Particular affiliations between phenomenology and economics can be found in the following topics: epistemology, the idea of man, the comprehension of liberty and the importance of legal or social orders, institutional rules and frameworks of regulations.
Der Einsatz von E-Learning-Angeboten wird seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre intensiv diskutiert (Baumgartner et al. 2002, S. 13) und sowohl von der Industrie als auch von staatlichen Stellen gefördert (Kerres et al. 2005). Neben dem Wunsch nach genereller Modernisierung (Bachmann et al. 2004, S. 1) soll der Einsatz von E-Learning vor allem zu einer Verbesserung der Betreuungsintensität der Lernenden, insbesondere in Massenveranstaltungen an deutschen Hochschulen führen (Grüne et al. 2006; Hiltz 1995; Mathes 2002; Schwickert et al. 2005). E-Learning soll es ermöglichen, die Lernenden intensiver und individueller zu betreuen, und so zu einer Erhöhung des empfundenen Servicegrades beitragen (Alavi 1994; Schutte 1997).
Seit der Abschaffung der zentralen Vergabestelle für Studienplätze (ZVS) müssen Hochschulen solche vermuteten Wettbewerbsvorteile nutzen und sich aktiv um die Steigerung der Bewerberzahlen und die Zufriedenheit der Lernenden bemühen, was zu der Forderung führte, den Einsatz von E-Learning-Angeboten in der Hochschullehre auszudehnen (BLK 2002, S. 1; BMBF 2000). In der Folge wurden große Summen für die Entwicklung und die Implementierung innovativer E-Learning-Angebote bereitgestellt, ohne deren langfristigen Erfolg sicherstellen zu können (Marshall et al. 2004).
In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir, wie eine nachhaltige Implementierung von E-Learning-Projekten in Hochschulen durch organisatorische Gestaltungsmaßnahmen gefördert werden kann. Die Untersuchung erfolgt aus dem Blickwinkel der Wirtschaftsinformatik, die sich mit dem Potenzial von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IKT) für die Verbesserung von Geschäftsprozessen beschäftigt (Laudon et al. 2007; Lyytinen 1985; WKWI 1994)...
Möglichkeiten der Evaluation von E-Learning-Arrangements. Eine Analyse am Beispiel von EverLearn
(2010)
Dieser Band enthält Kurzfassungen der Beiträge zur MKWI 2010. Die Vollversionen der Beiträge sind auf dem wissenschaftlichen Publikationenserver (GoeScholar) der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen und über die Webseite des Universitätsverlags unter http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/univerlag/2010/mkwi/ online verfügbar und in die Literaturnachweissysteme eingebunden.
We assess, through VAR evidence, the effects of monetary policy on banks’ risk exposure and find the presence of a risk-taking channel. A model combining fragile banks prone to risk mis-incentives and credit constrained firms, whose collateral fluctuations generate a balance sheet channel, is used to rationalize the evidence. A monetary expansion increases bank leverage. With two consequences: on the one side this exacerbates risk exposure; on the other, the risk spiral depresses output, therefore dampening the conventional amplification effect of the financial accelerator.
Measuring confidence and uncertainty during the financial crisis : evidence from the CFS survey
(2010)
The CFS survey covers individual situations of banks and other companies of the financial sector during the financial crisis. This provides a rare possibility to analyze appraisals, expectations and forecast errors of the core sector of the recent turmoil. Following standard ways of aggregating individual survey data, we first present and introduce the CFS survey by comparing CFS indicators of confidence and predicted confidence to ifo and ZEW indicators. The major contribution is the analysis of several indicators of uncertainty. In addition to well established concepts, we introduce innovative measures based on the skewness of forecast errors and on the share of ‘no response’ replies. Results show that uncertainty indicators fit quite well with pattern of real and financial time series of the time period 2007 to 2010. Business Sentiment , Financial Crisis , Survey Indicator , Uncertainty
The Master’s program in Money and Finance (MMF) is an innovative joint venture of the Department of Money and Macroeconomics and of the Department of Finance, both located in the new House of Finance. The program offers promising students from all over the world an intellectually stimulating and challenging setting in which to prepare for their professional careers in central banking, commercial banking, insurance and other financial services. By being located in Frankfurt, one of the world's leading financial centers and the only city in the world with two central banks (the ECB and the German Bundesbank), it offers unique opportunities for interaction with practitioners. The program is taught exclusively in English; knowledge of German is not required for admission to, or completion of the program. It has been designed with a view to establishing itself as a leading Masters program integrating studies in monetary economics, macroeconomics and finance and a major gateway to high-profile jobs in the banking and financial sector.
Discussions of the international dimension of the global economic crisis have frequently focused on the build-up of large current account "imbalances" since the mid-1990s. This paper examines the extent to which the U.S. current account can be understood in a purely real open-economy DSGE model, were agents' perception of long-run growth evolves over time in response to changes in productivity. We first show that long-run growth forecasts based on
ltering actual productivity growth comove strongly with survey measures of expectations. Simulating the model, we
nd that including data on U.S. TFP growth and the world real interest rate can, under standard parametrizations of our model, explain the evolution of the U.S. current account quite closely. With household preference that allow positive labor supply e¤ects after favorable news of future income, we can also generate output movements in line with the data.
Immer auf den ersten Rängen : Leibniz-Preis für den Frankfurter Volkswirtschaftler Roman Inderst
(2010)
Wenn es um Superlative geht, dann steht der 40-jährige Prof. Roman Inderst immer ganz oben auf dem Treppchen: jung und schon auf den ersten Rängen unter den Top Ten der europäischen Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Und am 15. März wurde er auch noch als jüngster unter den zehn Preisträgern mit dem wichtigsten deutschen Forschungspreis, dem mit 2,5 Millionen Euro dotierten Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2010, ausgezeichnet.
How to be a good European...
(2010)
Unter der Überschrift "Ich kaufe griechische Staatsanleihen weil..." sollten Persönlichkeiten aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur kurz begründen, warum sie griechische Staatsanleihen gekauft haben bzw. kaufen werden--idealerweise unter Nachweis ihres finanziellen Engagements. Zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt kaufe ich keine griechischen Staatsanleihen...
At the upcoming G20 meetings the issue what can be done to avoid a repetition of the current deep financial crisis will again be debated. Much attention and criticism will be directed to central banks. That is unavoidable: central banks must never again permit the development of financial imbalances that are large enough to lead to the collapse of major parts of the financial system when they unwind. In the future, policy makers must “lean against the wind” and tighten financial conditions if they perceive that imbalances are forming, even if there is little hard data to rely on. And they must be mindful that the costs of acting too late can dwarf those of acting too early.