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Summary The improved international tradability of services and the better protection of intellectual property rights - both of which have been results of the Uruguay Round - increase the international tradability of know-how. This paper investigates the economic impact of this. It is shown that...
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Zusammenfassung Die Vielzahl neuerer Modelle zur Analyse potentieller Konkurrenz läßt sich in zwei Kategorien unterteilen, nämlich die Post-entry-Analyse und die Contestable-market-Theorie. Beide Ansätze, die fast zeitgleich gegen Ende der siebziger Jahre in Erscheinung traten, nehmen für...
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Summary Does evolutionary theory help, for a theory of the firm, or, more widely, a theory of organization? In this paper I argue that it does, to some but also limited extent. Evolutionary theories of economies, and of culture, have acquired considerable following, but have also been subject to...
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Der Transformationsprozess Russlands von einer zentralstaatlich geplanten Volkswirtschafthin zu einer Marktwirtschaft nach westlichem Vorbild liefert eine aufschlussreiche Fallstudieüber die von William Baumol (1990) vertretene These der institutionellen Steuerbarkeit vonproduktivem...
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Aktuellen Beobachtungen im deutschen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel (LEH) zufolge treten die Handelsunternehmen mit der Einführung von Premiumhandelsmarken bzw. Genusshandels-marken (als sehr jungen Premiumhandelsmarkentyp) in direkte Konkurrenz zu entsprechen-den Herstellermarken und stellen Themen...
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The present article discusses several pricing patterns and promotion activities in the German grocery retail industry. Special sales offers on the one hand and continuous pricing on the other hand affect the price instability of several selected products. Altogether the grocery retail industry...
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Based upon the structure-conduct-performance approach the present paper analyses determinants of price-cost-margins over the business cycle for food industries in Germany, the USA as well as the Netherlands. Controlling for market structure variables, cyclical fluctuations in profitability are...
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In the centrally planned economy of the former Soviet Union, retail and wholesale trade were very much neglected. Since the beginning of transition the share of trade has increased considerably both in terms of its contribution to national product and employment. This paper analyses the...
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It is the objective of the present study to examine the competitive processes within the Polish meat processing industry during the first six years of transformation empirically. In particular, two questions were posed: How did the intensity of competition develop in this sector since the...
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Although the dissertation is in German, on demand a bilateral discussion can be done in English language.
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