The global competition for highly-skilled professionals and their knowledge has grown over the past decades. Cities have increasingly become aware of the importance of highly-skilled labour for their future development. The aim of our paper is to analyse urban policies towards highly-skilled...

General provisions -- Prohibited subsidies -- Actionable subsidies - Non-actionable subsidies -- Countervailing measures -- Institutions -- Notification and surveillance -- Developing country members -- Transitional arrangements -- Dispute settlement -- Final provisions

It is the stated objective of the European Commission to open hitherto protected industries to international competition by the end of 1992. To this end, national governments have ceded regulatory authority over insurance to the Commission. Rather surprisingly however, the Commission in its turn...

Wolfgang Müller believes that customer satisfaction is the key to future corporate success in European markets. The evidence is the changing nature of competition (decreasing brand loyalties and buyer focus on price versus quality) and the increasing emphasis of companies on keeping customers...

"Leasing" kam, nicht nur dem Worte nach, aus den USA zu uns. Diese Rezeption, getragen vorwiegend von zivilrechtsfremden Zwecken (vgl. Einführung S. 1), beschränkte sich jedoch vielfach auf die nackte Form. Sie stieß auf ein andersartiges rechtliches Umfeld, das schon deshalb nicht immer...