Abstract This article analyses and compares three in reality observable instruments designed to promote regional development: opening bonuses, advertisement and light-house-policy. We undertake the hopeful attempt to figure a marketplace of industrial locations where location-seeking mobile...

Abstract In this model-based contribution it will be shown, that creating overcapacities can be a rational business strategy for restricting political risks. Companies can establish capacities at several locations in order to create threatening possibilities for the case of a location raising...

The concept of Fair Trade is applied to the marketing of a variety of goods. In recent years it has met a continually increasing interest among consumers. Different Fair Trade organizations are trying to accomplish an improvement in working and living conditions in developing countries by means...

Das Kabinett hat den umstrittenen Gesetzentwurf zur Pkw-Maut im Dezember 2014 verabschiedet. Dabei wird eine Infrastrukturabgabe für die Straßenbenutzung erhoben und gleichzeitig eine Senkung der deutschen Kfz-Steuer in gleicher Höhe vorgenommen. Kritiker sehen hierin eine...

The German government’s recent plans to introduce road tolls (so-called infrastructure levies) have given rise to an intense debate over its distributional effects. Since the measure combines charges for all car drivers within the German road network with reductions in the tariff of the motor...

In jüngster Zeit kommt es immer häufiger zu Strafverfahren im Zusammenhang mit Korruption. Dies zeigt, dass Korruption auch in Deutschland ein nicht zu unterschätzendes Problem darstellt. Die ökonomische Theorie kann zum Verständnis illegaler Austauschbeziehungen und der Suche nach...