[eng] Based 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...

[eng] Estimation of asymmetric transmission with integrated prices : an application to the world wheat market . The method of estimating asymmetric price transmission developed by Wolffram (1971) is still widely used. However, this method fails to consider the time series properties of...

[eng] Impact of nominal shocks on the transmission of prices: the case of euro introduction in the german food market - In this paper the impact of the introduction of the Euro on the vertical price transmission in German food markets is analyzed. It is hypothesized that following the...