This paper extends the standard Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs to the multi-firm case. Considering locational equilibria we show that neither holds the Principle of Maximum Differentiation - as in the duopoly model - nor does the Principle of Minimum Differentiation - as in the...

This paper contributes to the current corporate governance debate through describing changes that have taken place in Nokia during the past decade. It can be seen that traditional ways of corporate governance and management do not apply for companies operating in a fast changing business and...

This paper focuses on qualitative aspects of financing, investment and output decisions offirms. Such dimensions can be modeled econometrically by means of dynamic limited dependent variables models. We develop a partial equilibrium dynamic stochastic programmingproblem of investment, dividend...

Für die Auswahl geeigneter Wachstumsstrategien ist zuerst eine objektiveAnalyse des eigenen Unternehmens sowie der Wettbewerbssituationin der eigenen Branche und gegebenenfalls in angrenzenden Branchenerforderlich. Dazu dient beispielsweise ein Benchmarking mit Kennzahlen.Einen ersten...

The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to theirperformance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the pastperformance of firms measured by return...

Government policy emphasises five ‘drivers’ of productivity: competition, enterprise, innovation, investment and skillsand each of these has been the subject of major programmes of reform (HM Treasury, 2006). Despite this, andnotwithstanding some improvement, UK productivity in terms of output...

Im Rahmen der „Vorlage des Verwaltungsausschusses vom 01.11.2006, VD Nr.DSIV/1897 zur Umsetzung des mittelfristigen Haushaltskonzeptes 2006-2009, Detailanalyseund Handlungsempfehlungen zum Umgang mit ausgewählten Beteiligungen“wird die Stadt Leipzig, als alleinige Gesellschafterin der LVV...

1. Introduction 1.1 Background 1.2 Problem Setting 1.3 Research Objectives 2. Theoretical Framework 2.1 Transaction Cost Economics 2.2 Ownership Problems and Corporate Governance 3. Research Methodology 3.1 Research Location 3.2 Data Sources 3.3 Method of Analysis3.4 Classification of Variables...

This paper analyzes the problem of deriving predictions, regarding supply behavior of acompetitive firm, from prior consistency postulates about input-output choices made by such afirm. It extends the literature by introducing a consistency postulate for firm choice, which isweaker than...