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The German state banks : global players in the international financial markets

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

The German state banks - or Landesbanks - are not only some of the largest banks in Germany but are also a dominant …

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Environmental regulation and competitive advantage : a study of packaging waste in the European supply chain

Hitchens, D. M. W. N.; Birnie, J. Esmond; Thompson, William - 2000

responses. A variety of regulatory regimes is represented by including within the study companies from Germany, Italy, the … Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. While it is of note that the relatively strong regulation in Germany has indeed had … of firm size and ownership; and the impact of regulation on competitiveness, and firm competitiveness on the efficiency …

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Trade liberalization, competition and the WTO

Milner, Chris (contributor); Read, Robert (contributor) - 2002

The prospective WTO Millennium Round of negotiations will highlight critical economic issues regarding the application and implementation of the WTO rules to international trade in goods and services. In this book, a distinguished group of academic experts considers the agenda and areas of...

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Recent advances in neo-Schumpeterian economics : essays in honour of Horst Hanusch

Pyka, Andreas (contributor); Hanusch, Horst (contributor) - 2009

comprehensive economic theory encompassing industry, the public sector and financial markets …

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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice

Reifschneider, Alexandra Petermann - 2006

The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....

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Progress in the competitive agenda in the postal and delivery sector

Crew, Michael A. (contributor); … - 2009

Regulation continues to be an important issue in the postal and delivery sector of the global economy. This latest volume of the series covers progress made in the competitive agenda in the industry. It is global in scope and addresses topics of great importance to scholars and practitioners of...

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Political competition, innovation and growth in the history of Asian civilizations

Jones, Eric (contributor); Bernholz, Peter (contributor); … - 2004

Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...

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Entrepreneurial competition and industrial location : investigating the structural patterns and intangible sources of competitive performance

Peneder, Michael - 2001

Entrepreneurial Competition and Industrial Location explores the notion of entrepreneurial competition from its theoretical foundations in early Austrian and contemporary evolutionary economics. Focusing on the structural development of the intangible factors of production such as labour skills,...

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Environmental regulation and market power : competition time consistency and international trade

Petrakis, Emmanuel (ed.); … - 1999

efficiency in varying market conditions. This book evaluates the impact that market power could have on the implementation of …

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Cost control, college access, and competition in higher education

Martin, Robert Eugene - 2005

Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today. Unfortunately, the decline in student quality is accompanied by costs that are out of control, a governance system that will not permit any reallocation of resources, and a society that...

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