The subject of this paper tackles questions of macroeconomic integration of the South-East Asian countries South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Economically, the analysis is based on notions of stochastic long-run convergence and business cycle synchrony in the GDPs. According tests for...

Vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem Markterfolg japanischer Automobilhersteller in Südostasien.

The deregulation of the German energy sector changes transaction relations, trading processes and contract design. We report on the findings of a field research survey conductet in the deregulated German wholsale trading market between April and June 2000.

Recent changes in the German energy policy initiated a deregulation process from a monopolistic to a competitive market, fundamentally changing the market structure, transaction relationships and trading processes. While the mutual exchange of electric energy has been a business activity between...

Within the debate on the UK productivity gap regulation has been identified as a potential cause. This paper investigates the effect of regulation on productivity by exclusively focusing on indirect, unintended and/or unforeseen effects. First we develop a conceptual framework, then we use this...

Die Treuhandidee steht allgemein für ein juristisches Konstrukt des Eigentums,das dem Treuhänder nach außen die volle Rechtsstellung eines Eigentümersverleiht, ihm im Innenverhältnis zum Treugeber jedoch mehr oder wenigerstarker Beschränkung unterwirft. In (Ost-)Deutschland erlebte diese...

The share of privately managed road infrastructure throughout Western Europe is relatively high; the progress among these countries is unequally developed. While private concessionaires have been established in England, France, Spain, Finland, France, Italy and Portugal since the late 1950s,...

PRIVATISATION AND THE USE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS(PPP) MODELS IN THE PROVISION OF ROAD AND HIGHWAYINFRASTRUCTURE HAS CONTINUOUSLY GAINED IN IMPORTANCEWORLDWIDE AND IN PARTICULAR IN EUROPE DURING THE LASTYEARS. TRADITIONALLY CONSIDERED AS A TYPICAL PUBLIC DOMAIN,MORE AND MORE OF THE TASKS...

The paper aims at revealing why institutions like public-private partnership (PPP) Task Forces have an impact on the realisation ofPPP projects and the achievement of Value for Money in PPPs. The paper is based on a survey looking at PPP frameworks in the internationalcontext. The need for a...