Quotelung bei Obliegenheitsverletzung: Alles,Nichts oder die Hälfte

The new German Act of Insurance Contracts prescribes, that in the case of gross negligence in respect of customer's obligations, the compensation has to be apportioned adequate to the measure of responsibility. The article argues, that most serious violations could justify to refuse any compensation. It should not be correct, too, to shorten the compensation regularly by the half or to measure various breaches of duties schematically instead of grading all the customers ways of acting. After all the apportionment should focus on the actual importance of the objective breaches of duties.     

Der Euro – eine kritische Bilanz

Zehn Jahre nach ihrer Gründung erf?hrt die Europ?ische Zentralbank viel Lob für ihre T?tigkeit. Wie ist ihr Erfolg bei der Inflationsbek?mpfung zu bewerten? Wie sind die institutionellen Ver?nderungen seit 2003 zu erkl?ren? Was ist vom Beitritt der osteurop?ischen L?nder zur Europ?ischen W?hrungsunion zu erwarten? Prof. Dr. Roland Vaubel, 60, lehrt Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Universit?t Mannheim und ist Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">Krankenpfleger zum halben Preis</Emphasis>

Zusammenfassung  Krankenpflegeschüler unterstützen Medizinprojekt in Mali — Seit 2004 spenden Auszubildende des St. Marien-Hospitals Mühlheim, die an der Contilia-Akademie zum/zur Gesundheits- und Krankenpfleger/in ausgebildet werden, jeden Monat ein paar Euro für die Menschen in Gani-Dah, einer kleinen Stadt im westafrikanischen Mali. Informationen über das Projekt auf: www.gani-dah.de     

How giving affects giving: a long-term analysis of donations

Social preferences theories suggest that at least some people show altruistic behaviour. However, this philanthropic behaviour ranges from pure altruistic preferences to reluctant altruists. The fact that a subset of contributors has impure preferences raises questions regarding the stability of prosocial contributions. Assuming differences in other regarding preferences, we examine whether at an aggregated level monetary contributions are stable or fragile over time. We study the aggregated donations in the US from 1973 to 2013 using ARIMA and ARMAX models. The significant autoregressive and moving average coefficients in our estimations suggest that aggregated donations are highly autocorrelated. Our estimated impulse response functions indicate that aggregated donations converge to their historic mean quickly after an exogenous shock, which shows the stickiness of the inclination to donate.     

Loafing in the 21 century: Enhanced opportunities—and remedies—for withholding job effort in the new workplace

The electronic workplace, a greater emphasis on knowledge work and teams, and the increased relevance of managing impressions of work performance are among factors that relate to higher levels of withholding effort among problem employees in the 21^st century. This article considers these three factors in the context of dominant organizational forms—low-cost operators, global competitor corporations, and high-involvement firms—and how each can lead to lower on-the-job effort. Remedies are offered for new forms of withholding effort such as cyberloafing, as well as hiding lack of effort in virtual teams and through impression management. In addition, a different way of considering the problem of lower job effort is proposed through examination of how a work ethic and a leisure ethic can be synthesized to enhance organizational creativity, innovation, and performance.     

Wohlstand — keine Alternative zum BIP

In der Dezemberausgabe 2009 ver?ffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst ein Zeitgespr?ch mit dem Thema „Wie l?sst sich Wohlstand messen?“. Dazu ?u?ern sich Peter Michael von der Lippe und Claus Christian Breuer kritisch. Roland Zieschank und Hans Diefenbacher sowie Hans Wolfgang Brachinger stellen ihre Sichtweisen jeweils in einer Erwiderung dar.     

The impact of sovereign wealth funds on global financial markets

If sovereign wealth funds act similarly to private investors and thus allocate foreign assets according to market capitalisation rather than liquidity considerations, official portfolios reduce their “bias” towards the major reserve currencies — the US dollar and the euro. As a result, more capital flows “downhill“ from rich to less wealthy economies. In this scenario, the euro area and the United States would be subject to net capital outflows while Japan and the emerging markets would attract net capital inflows. The potential implications of a rebalancing of international capital flows for stock prices, interest rates and exchange rates remain uncertain, however. The authors wish to thank Marcel Fratzscher for excellents comments. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Central Bank.     

Do the Numbers Add Up to Different Views? Perceptions of Ethical Faculty Behavior Among Faculty in Quantitative Versus Qualitative Disciplines

Faculty across a wide range of academic disciplines at 89 AASCB-accredited U.S. business schools were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the ethical nature of faculty behaviors related to undergraduate course content, student evaluation, educational environment, research issues, financial and material transactions, and social and sexual relationships. We analyzed responses based on whether instruction in the academic discipline focused mainly on quantitative topics or largely on qualitative issues. Faculty who represented quantitative disciplines such as accounting and finance (n = 383) were more likely to view behaviors such as selling complimentary textbooks and grading on a strict curve as more ethical than faculty representing more qualitative disciplines such as management and marketing (n = 447). In contrast, faculty in quantitative disciplines were more likely to view behaviors such as showing controversial media and bringing up sexual or racial charged matters as less ethical than their counterparts. Whereas these differences may be attributed to the respondents’ academic backgrounds, the large level of agreement on ethical behaviors raises questions about the growing influence of business disciplines that operate within more unified research and teaching paradigms. Linda Kidwell (PhD, Louisiana State University) is an associate professor in the Accounting Department at the University of Wyoming where she teaches auditing as well as accounting ethics. Her research interests include academic ethics, auditing ethics, and governmental auditing. Her research has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Teaching Business Ethics, CPA Journal, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and elsewhere. She has taught in the United States, Australia, and Canada. She has also been a frequent faculty mentor in the National Conference on Ethics in America held annually at the United States Military Academy (West Point). Roland Kidwell (PhD, Louisiana State University) is an associate professor in the Management and Marketing Department at the University of Wyoming where he teaches courses in new ventures, human resource management and general management. His current research interests include ethical issues involving family businesses and new ventures, social entrepreneurship, and workplace deviance such as withholding effort (free riding, shirking, social loafing) in organizational contexts. He is co-editor of a book of readings and cases, Managing Organizational Deviance (2005, Sage), and his research has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of Business and Psychology and elsewhere.