WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium

Geopolitical risks have recently become a focus of corporate risk management, for example, due to tariff-related supply chain disruptions, the rationing of rare earths, or acts of war. As a rule, they cannot be hedged with standard financial market...

Islamic finance has become considerably more important in recent years. With assets forecast to grow to as much as US$6,700bn by 2027, Islamic finance has evolved from what only a few years ago was a niche market to a mainstream industry in many,...

In Germany, with a few exceptions (e.g., gas stations), stores must be closed on Sundays. The emergence of unmanned Smart Stores 24/7 (e.g., Tante Enso, Tante M, Teo) led to these stores also being open on Sundays (without staff). The opening of...

Populism is a global phenomenon that occurs in various guises. From an economic perspective, it is a distributional conflict. Historical observation shows that populist governments do not alleviate this distributional conflict, but rather exacerbate...

Contrary to early forecasts, the COVID-19 crisis did not increase income inequality in Germany and Switzerland. Two key factors explain this: labor market flexibility and effective government stabilizers such as short-time work schemes. These...