financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation …

compete and that the effect of health on competitiveness differs with socio-economic background. Health has a strongly …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …

competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms …

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the …

, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

Welfare and Competition tool (WELCOM), to estimate with minimum data requirements the direct distributional effects of market … telecommunications and corn products. The results show that increasing competition from four to 12 firms in the mobile telecommunications …

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …