Endogene Sunk Costs und die Kostenstruktur -- Endogene Sunk Costs in einem „Love of Variety“ Modell -- Endogene Sunk Costs in einem „Ideal Variety“ Modell -- Anwendungen der Modelle mit endogenen Sunk Costs -- Schlussbemerkungen.

More than half of the world's sovereign states are small economies. The majority are in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean Basin. For small economies, the globalization process involves opportunities, but also important risks because of their vulnerability and lack of diversification. This...

Investigates the dynamic welfare effects of exposure to trade in a new trade model. This book uses a new trade model to explore which country-specific conditions give rise to horizontal or vertical multinational activity. It analyzes the role of goods trade and horizontal multinational firms in...

Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting rule. The comparison is based on a medium-scale DSGE model which has been estimated based on state-of-the-art Bayesian methods. The model for the Swiss economy is an expanded...

This book challenges the common perception that significant regional disparities do not exist in small countries. As small developed countries become increasingly competitive and their economic structures resemble those of the large, a re-assessment of the regional consequences of these changes...

This book explores the wave of liberalization reforms experienced by OECD network industries. Focusing on the telecommunications sector, the authors analyze the latest data available on liberalization and privatization, and following a political economics approach, they integrate standard...

Melitz-Modelle und endogene Wachstumsmodelle im handelstheoretischen Kontext -- Modelltheoretischer Vergleich hinsichtlich der Implikationen zu Wohlfahrtseffekten einer Handelsliberalisierung -- Empfehlung zur Modellauswahl für relevante Fragen und Anwendungsfälle.

This book presents a new computational approach to solving large-scale Auerbach-Kotlikoff Overlapping Generations (OLG) models in a complementarity format. Unlike with integrated solution methods, the proposed decomposition algorithm allows for the solution of multi-regional and multi-sectoral...

Jakob Schwab analyzes central mechanisms in the systematic economic interaction between rich and poor countries. He focuses on the drivers and effects of investment in developing countries and shows that predictions of standard economic analysis may turn around when accounting for peculiarities...