Foreign direct investment - the major driving force of globalization - is increasingly dominated by merger and …

Among measures to fight hospital acquired infections, an emerging epidemic in many countries around the world, adoption … problem, characterized by asymmetric information between hospital management and healthcare workers. In this study, we provide …

which information costs and regulations hold back merger activity. Our results suggest that banks operating in more …

This paper presents some ideas about determinants of merger waves and some evidence on their effect on profitability … and employment. A brief survey of previous merger waves and an analysis of the recent one give support to the hypothesis … that sectoral shocks are at the root of merger waves. Deregulation and globalization are identified as the shocks …

This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the …' launch strategy (freely chosen first year price) still has a major impact on pricing while the impact of the additional …

). Since its launch, the corresponding price has shown rather turbulent dynamics, including nervous reactions to policy … announcements and a price collapse after a visible over-allocation in Phase I. As a consequence, the question whether fundamental … factors (fossil fuel prices, economic activity, weather) affect the EUA price remained partially unresolved. Today, being …

this influences the price structure in these markets. Specifically, the paper attempts to single out the existence and … direction of causality between the conventional and organic pineapple price using the European pineapple market as an example …. We study spatial price transmission, i.e. the difference in prices between the markets for organic and conventional …