competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search … spillover effects may even hinder firms from cooperating in R&D when there is intensive competition on the research stage. …

The present paper compares expected inflation to (econometric) inflation forecasts based on a number of forecasting … expected inflation we develop a recursive filtering algorithm which extracts unexpected inflation from real interest rate data …, even in the presence of diverse risks and a potential Mundell-Tobin-effect. The extracted unexpected inflation is compared …

economic approach to competition policy in general and anti-trust policy in particular. Our analysis tries to establish the … well have some influence on market concentration and competition policy would have to adjust not to counterfeit the Lisbon …

While the long run relation between money and inflation is well established, empirical evidence on the adjustment to … volatility of the transmission from monetary pressure to inflation follows some structure, i.e., if the parameter regime can …Während die Langfristbeziehung zwischen Geld und Inflation in der Literatur als weitgehend gesichert gilt, ist …

Many health economists demand more competition in the health care system. They focus on the competition between … sickness funds for insured and the competition between health care providers for contracts with sickness funds. But they … neglect the competition between health care providers for patients which is crucial for medical quality. This third field of …

between the presence of external investors and domestic firms’ productivity, no matter which regional breakdown is looked at … cases are obviously not strong enough to increase the domestic firms’ overall productivity. …

This paper examines the presence of sectoral convergence of labor productivity between 14 OECD countries. Using the …

Industrial productivity levels of formerly socialist economies in Central East Europe (including East Germany) are … at the firm level: what are the firm-specific determinants of productivity gaps. To assess this, we have conducted an …-pair approach, in which first hypothesis about relevant productivity level-determinants are tested. In a second step, positively …

future productivity growth were assessed by looking at the specialisation patterns in domestic production. This analysis adds … results pertain to Slovenia and the Slovak Republic. Those two countries appear to be best suited for swift productivity catch …