WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium

Being a student and gaining newfound independence entails unforeseen economic risks in everyday life. As a precaution, students can opt for certain non-life insurance policies that protect them from the financial difficulties in the event of a...

The „New Silk Road” or „Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)” is a major project launched by the Chinese government with enormous influence on the world economy. The decision for or against participation in the BRI has political and economic...

Multistakeholder initiatives (MSIs) are voluntary, self-regulating and often cross-sectoral partnerships of public, civil society and private actors (e.g. companies, trade unions, governments, or NGOs). MSIs play an important role in global...

Originally intended to eliminate competitive distortions, the euro is losing internal stability. Although the ECB's more restrictive monetary policy could provide temporary relief, a renewed crisis risks additional interventions and increased...

Artificial intelligence is penetrating more and more areas of business. Which fields of application for artificial intelligence exist in personnel management? Where can AI applications be helpful? These questions are addressed in this article.

The case study provides a comprehensible and clear insight into the tax burden of companies in Germany. Setting up a company triggers various types of tax. Different legal forms result in different tax burdens. Transparency principle for...

Hybrid work combines the advantages of working in the office, such as spontaneous idea generation, team building and socialization, with the opportunities of virtual work, such as better work-life integration, broader access to know-how and...

The emergence of neo-brokers facilitates financial market participation. Driven by private investor preferences for lottery-like payouts, as well as the possibility to trade via smartphone, signs of a so-called gamblification can be observed in the...

The world of work is subject to constantly accelerating change: digitalization, AI, a shortage of skilled workers and the attitudes of younger generations towards the world of work are strong drivers of change. The term „New Work“ is used to...

A lot of data for housing markets is only available with a time lag or not at all. This study investigates whether a standardised analysis of newspaper articles can help to increase transparency in housing markets. For this purpose, natural language...

The challenge these days is the use and application of „artificial intelligence“ (AI) for one’s own scientific work. One danger in the use of artificial intelligence is plagiarism, whether conscious or unconscious, as well as any form of...

At the latest in the wake of the crisis surrounding Credit Suisse in 2023 and its ad hoc takeover by its direct competitor UBS, “coco bonds” attracted unwanted attention overnight. The case study analyses the essential characteristics of these...

The efficient management of the scarcity of goods and resources under the assumption of rational actors is a central subject of economics. Behavioral economics complements this perspective by examining how the experience of scarcity, especially in...

Not one topic is actually more hyped than AI in Retail. Not only at the frontend but also in the backend and in the supply chain tremendous investments are made for R&D to use customer data more intelligent. For not getting more behind, the...

Separations of employees often occur in business. This can affect individual cases, but also very many employees at once. How separations are to be prepared and carried out has been sufficiently discussed in the literature. Nevertheless, it is not...

Working time and the number of working days is a matter for collective or individual bargaining. The demand for the introduction of a four-day week is therefore a question of collective bargaining policy. The thesis that a corresponding reduction in...

In Germany, statutory pension insurance, and thus the core of old-age provision, is traditionally based on a pay-as-you-go system. Its ability to function is at risk, especially due to demographic developments. A current proposal for a capital...