We consider strategic trade policy when two firms from two different countries that start out with different production costs compete in prices in a third country, and technology transfer between the two firms is possible through technology licensing. We find that optimal policy when technology...

This paper examines the endogenous choice problem of each firm's price or quantity contract in a mixed duopoly composed of one social welfare maximizing public firm and one relative profit-maximizing private firm. In this paper, we show that unless the degree of product differentiation and the...

"Zum Thema lassen sich unterschiedliche Zugänge wählen. Hier geht es um die kritische Diskussion des 'Warum' und 'Wie' beruflicher Weiterbildung in öffentlicher Verantwortung. Drei einfache Grundgedanken strukturieren diese Darstellung: (1) Berufliche Weiterbildung als gesellschaftliche...

"1. In view of the severe employment crisis in the European industrial countries, the subject of labour market flexibility is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention. Apossible need for flexibility is, however, not only to be seen in the fields of labour costs, working hours and...

"This report examines what factors could support the empirically emerging dynamics of the change in employment forms. The 'regular employment relationship' is frequently criticised as being overregulated, and the solution to the current labour market problems is seen in more flexibility...

"This report examines what factors could support the empirically emerging dynamics of the change in employment forms. The 'regular employment relationship' is frequently criticised as being overregulated, and the solution to the current labour market problems is seen in more flexibility...