Designing electronic markets is still a rather intricate process. eNegotiation - and thereby trading rules - embody the core of the institution ”electronic market”. Although success or failure of electronic markets is strongly influenced by the design of the trading rules the design process...

When adjustment costs are present, cyclical preference and technology heterogeneities in aproduct’s markets induce cycles in production. We exploit cyclic and dihedral groupinvariances in an industry’s cost technology to describe these patterns. We show whenequilibrium cyclical pricing and...

Der Erfolg eines Unternehmens und der Wohlstand einer Nation haben zahlreiche Ursachen. Ein wesentliches Erfolgsrezept deutscher Industrieunternehmen ist traditionell die technische Perfektion der Produkte und Verfahren, die technische Qualitätsführerschaft...

[...]Our first suggestion is to reduce the fragmentation oftrading in STRIPS by assigning the same CUSIP number to allSTRIPS maturing on a common date—thus making thoseSTRIPS fungible with each other. In addition to enhancing theliquidity of the STRIPS market, this action would ensure...

This paper attempts to establish the trend of market development in Europe in thecenturies before the industrial revolution, by applying three different measures ofmarket integration to a compilation of monthly and annual price data. In contrast tomuch of the existing work, which suggests that...

The existence of a self-regulating arbitrage mechanism under the gold standard has been tradi-tionally considered as one of its main advantages, and attracted a corresponding research interest.This research is arguably relevant not only to test for the effciency of the gold points, but also...

Characteristics models have been found to be useful in many areas of economics. However,their empirical implementation tends to rely heavily on functional form assumptions. Inthis paper we develop a revealed preference approach to characteristics models. We derivethe necessary and sufficient...