"Managerial technology" is as important as "medium", "labour-intensive" and other technology in the LDCs. This article describes the situation and some of the problems in the field of industrial costing, giving suggestions for solutions and exemplifying with research results obtained in Brazil.

Das vorliegende Papier erläutert anhand eines einfachen Modells der Zeitungsmonopole, die Relevanz der Theorie der zweiseitigen Märkte für den Mediensektor. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die indirekten, zweiseitigen Netzwerkeffekte, die sowohl einen zweiseitigen Markt begründen, als auch für...

"This paper studies how prices comove across products, firms and locations to gauge the relative importance of retailer versus manufacturer-level shocks in determining prices. I make use of a large panel data set on prices for a cross-section of retailers in the U.S. I analyze prices at the...

This paper analyzes the effects of market structure on price dispersion in the airline industry, using panel data from 1993 through 2006. The results found in this paper contrast with those of Borenstein and Rose (1994), who found that price dispersion increases with competition. We find that...