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...

Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt zum neue Institutionen, Vergabeverfahren und Anreizsysteme der Arbeitsverwaltung in Australien dar. Außerdem wird eine erste Analyse der Erfahrungen vor dem theoretischenHintergrund der Neuen Institutionenökonomik vorgenommen.

The sweeping political changes and institutional transformation in the former Soviet Union, together with the market shock created by the collapse of the Soviet economy were expected to generate substantial changes in firm behaviours. Privatisation, in particular, was thought to constitute the...

This paper utilises evidence from the first collapse of a private finance initiative in the UK, that of the National Physical Laboratory, to examine the reality of PFIs in contrast to the rhetoric presented by government...