I first came across the internet when I saw the famous web-cam set up by researchers in the
Cambridge University computing department, which they used to keep an eye on the coffee …

Multiple stock exchanges have been in operation in Germany since the nineteenth century.
We provide new data on the number of listed firms, the market value and industry …

The location of towns is far from random. The influence of geography and location
interdependence for the spatial structure of locations and the selection of towns from these is …

Spatial modeling is a systematic approach to understand the spatial configuration of
economic activity from a local to a global scale. This chapter begins with an overview of …

As the world became increasingly interconnected in the post-Cold War era, the concept of
security within the IR field has been extended to include non-military aspects such as …

Green growth entails the redirection of the economy onto a more sustainable long run
trajectory (Bowen and Fankhauser, 2011; World Bank, 2011). Given the environmental …

There is extensive previous research on the early modern chartered multinational
corporations, their development and how they dealt with the various challenges they faced …

There is a large literature on the impact of railways on price convergence. Ignored, however,
is the role of another potentially important network: post offices. By providing timely …

While the newest Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as the internet,
are in some ways unique, in other respects they have historical predecessors. For example …

We provide the first overview over all political connections of firms via current Members of
Parliament on supervisory boards and board of directors listed on the Berlin stock exchange …