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The new institutional economics of antitrust and regulation
Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 1999
competencies in the EU - and presents some implications of NIE for economic policy making, research and advisory activities. …
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Conflicts and conflict resolution in international antitrust
Klodt, Henning - 2000
Antitrust issues increasingly reach beyond national borders. This paper addresses the question whether such issues can reasonably be solved by an extraterritorial application of national competition law or whether they call for an international competition policy of its own. The analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491128
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Market concentration and business survival in static v dynamic industries
Burke, Andrew; Hanley, Aoife - 2009
We propose that the effect of market concentration on firm survival is different according to whether an industry is static (low entry and exit) or dynamic. In our empirical analysis we find support for this hypothesis. Industry concentration rates reduce the survival of new plants but only in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829928
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The influence of capital market integration on production and market structures
Koop, Michael J. - 2001
The paper analyzes the effects of increasing capital market integration on production and market structures, trade and capital flows as well as national and global welfare. In order to facilitate the analysis of the integration process, three stages of capital market integration are defined....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474172
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Complementarities in corporate governance : a survey of the literature with special emphasis on Japan
Heinrich, Ralph P. - 1999
The present paper uses a comparison of Japan and the US to argue that the debate about corporate governance reform is best framed in terms of systems of complementary instruments and institutions. It argues that the Japanese and US systems of corporate governance differ along many dimensions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475759
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Stock market dispersion, sectoral shocks, and the German business cycle
Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2000
This paper elaborates on the relative importance of sectoral shocks for real economic activity in Germany. Implications of multisectoral real business cycle models are examined by resorting to testing techniques based on stock market returns. The empirical evidence is obtained by calculating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476130
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The role of multinational enterprises in globalization : an empirical overview
Kleinert, Jörn - 2001
The activities of multinational enterprises drive the economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper lists some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization. Therefore, the importance of multinational enterprises in foreign direct investment and production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476361
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The competitiveness effects of the EU climate policy
Peterson, Sonja (contributor); Klepper, Gernot (contributor) - 2008
EU has decided to reduce its GHG emissions by 20% relative to 1990 until the year 2020. These reductions will even rise … competitiveness as a priority area for EU policy and there is some concern about the competitiveness effects of EU climate policy. We … use the multi-sector, multi-region computable general equilibrium model DART to assess the impacts of the recent EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777229
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Innovation and productivity in European industries
Pianta, Mario (contributor); Vaona, Andrea (contributor) - 2006
The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining productivity and export success in European...
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Firm size and innovation in European manufacturing
Vaona, Andrea (contributor); Pianta, Mario (contributor) - 2006
The paper investigates the differences between small, medium-sized and large firms regarding their performance in the introduction of new products and processes. After a review of the relevant literature, two models are proposed and tested in search for different business strategies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003347554