Worldwide, there is considerable interest in postal and delivery economics. Governments, particularly in the European Union, are examining closely the roles of the two systems and how best to regulate them. This volume brings together 20 essays originally presented at the 12th Conference on...

This volume is a collection of selected papers using the framework of inframarginal analysis of the division of labour held at Monash University on 6-7 July 2001. This framework, pioneered mainly by Professor Xiaokai Yang, (with joint researches involving all the three editors and many of the...

Fabian Schnell develops a model indicating that by keeping real interest rates too low, monetary policy can distort the allocation of resources across firms and potentially delay economic recovery after a recession. This is a new channel of monetary policy that is especially relevant in view of...

Modelltheoretische Grundlagen des Zinssetzungsverhaltens von Geschäftsbanken -- Ökonometrische Modellierung u. a. mittels des Smooth-Transition-Ansatzes -- Empirische Analyse, den deutschen Bankensektor betreffend.

Grundlagen des Preismanagements für Leistungsbündel -- Leistungsbündelung und Preisbildungsmechanismen -- Analyse alternativer Preisbildungsmechanismen -- Analyse der Leistungsbündelung -- Analyse der Delegation von Preisentscheidungen -- Fazit und Ausblick.