This paper deals with the phenomenon of high inward investement flows to the German market in greater detail.

Der schweizer Finanzplan ist reich an Vermögnesverwaltern. Die Wahrnehmung allerdings, dass allein die Banken in diesem lukrativen Geschäft aktiv sind, ist falsch. Unterschätzt werden die zahlreichen unabhängigen Vermögensverwalter, die ihre Dienste vermögenden Kunden anbieten. [...]

Die unabhängigen Schweizer Vermögensverwalter stehen vor einer Konsolidierungswelle. Dies ist dasErgebnis einer Studie des Swiss Banking Instituts der Universität Zürich. Die Vermögensverwalter, dieneben inländischen insbesondere deutsche und italienische Kunden betreuen, rechnen danach...

Les gérants de fortune indépendants font preuve d'un étonnant mélange d'optimisme et de pessimisme. Lesgestionnaires indépendants actifs sont 46% à se déclarer confiants à parvenir à croître plus rapidement que lereste du marché. Cette proportion grimpe même à plus de 50% chez les...

Market concentration ratios are popular statistics for characterizing the extent of marketdominance in an imperfectly competitive market, but these ratios may not agree whencomparing two markets. Neither do they necessarily agree with the Herfindahl-Hirschman orentropy indices. This letter...

This paper documents the conglomerate discount for all available German firms andthe DAX 30 firms in detail. It shows a moderate discount of about 0.06 based onGerman comparable firms and of about 0.20 for a combined sample of German andEuropean peer groups. I further examine the relationship...

The working report looks at the actual situation of the German broadband cable market in thecontext of merger control and sector specific regulation. A crucial problem in dealing with thecable market whether in antitrust cases or in the regulatory context is the precise assessmentof the economic...

The paper Investigates stability and change of regional economic activities in the longrun.As the unit of analysis we selected the machine tool industry in West Germany forthe years 1953 to 2002. We spot a strong variance in the activities between the differentregions. These differences are...

This paper presents a case study based on a full dataset related to 31 companies operating in thePolish beer industry during the 1990’s. It discusses the impact of privatisation and of secondaryownership transfers on market outcomes. It confirms the critical role played by foreign...

The aim of this paper is to test the predictions of Sutton's model of independentsubmarkets for the Italian retail banking industry. This industry, in fact, can be viewedas made of a large number of local markets corresponding to different geographicallocations. In order to do that, I first...