Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen, beschäftigt sich in seinem Kommentar mit der Frage nach der Höhe des Auslandsanteils an den Fertigungskosten bei einigen deutschen Automobilherstellern. Dabei beschäftigt er sich insbesondere mit dem Porsche Cayenne. Er zeigt,...

Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen, beschäftigt sich in seinem Kommentar mit der Frage nach der Höhe des Auslandsanteils an den Fertigungskosten bei einigen deutschen Automobilherstellern. Dabei beschäftigt er sich insbesondere mit dem Porsche Cayenne. Er zeigt,...

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...

Conventional wisdom suggests that the stocks of human capital were one of the few positive legacies from communism. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education production function approach and new data on...

All formerly centrally planned economies record very substantial declines in their social products. The largest drops in production are recorded in Poland and in east Germany (the former GDR), that is, in those countries where the most radical steps towards a market economy were taken in 1990....

In 1990 the privatisation debate in the ex-socialist countries advanced considerably. By now, the fundamental importance of private property for a market economy and the pitfalls of employee-ownership schemes are rarely disputed. Instead, the need for rapid privatisation and suitable methods of...