Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...

Für die optimale Größe betrieblicher Einheiten spielen ihre Skalenerträge eine wesentlicheRolle. Anhand eines Datensatzes, der aus dem Forschungsranking 2005 desCentrums für Hochschulentwicklung abgeleitet ist, werden die Skalenerträge der Forschungbetriebswirtschaftlicher Fachbereiche...

At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...

In this paper, we aim to model the vertical relation between retailers and suppliersin the food industry whereby retailers exercise seller power in their relation with consumersand buyer power in their relation with producers. We then evaluate the degree of pricetransmission, relative to the...

We construct an equilibrium random matching model of the labour market, withendogenous market participation and a general matching technology that allows formarket size effects: the job-finding rate for workers and the incentives for participationchange with the level of unemployment. In...

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...

Betrachtet man die Veränderungen im letzten Jahrzehnt, so gibt die Entwicklung der Elektrizitätswirtschaftin der heutigen Bundesrepublik Deutschland ein nahezu allumfassendes Bildvon der Transformation einer rein öffentlichen Aufgabe bis hin zu einem rein privatem Gut.Dabei spielten anfangs...