Öffentliche Dienstleister sehen sich insgesamt aufgrund der aktuellen Liberalisierungsbestrebungenmit einem zunehmend dynamischeren Umfeld konfrontiert. Insbesondere kommunaleAbfallwirtschaftsbetriebe werden in der Zukunft aufgrund von Kreislaufwirtschafts- und Abfallgesetzeiner höheren...

We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand “jobless” growthin Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, fortyyears of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of largeexporting plants with...

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants´responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregateproductivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American TradeAgreement (NAFTA)...

The interaction between trade liberalisation, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand is analysed in a model of international oligopoly. Lower trading barriers increase the degree of foreign competition. The competing enterprises respond by investing more aggressively in...

Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influenceschooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schoolingand decline in...

Financial liberalisation has often failed in the past due to underestimated problems ofstructural change. We analyse such changes in lending behaviour of Thai commercialbanks during a liberalisation phase by way of unique micro data. Liberalisationhas expected positive effects, such as lowering...

In a recent paper Mujumder (2004, Economics Letters) argued that only if the industry is a monopoly, we could be certain that the government could use profit tax to make up any shortfall in tariff revenue and also make the consumers and producers better off. We show that this result is not...

Seit über sechs Jahren ist der deutsche Strommarkt vollständig liberalisiert; Stromkunden könnenseither ihren Anbieter frei wählen, machen jedoch von dieser Möglichkeit nur seltenGebrauch – je nach EVU ist in Deutschland von einer Wechselquote im Bereich zwischen 2%und 5% auszugehen.1...

Comparative advertising has been permitted in Germany in 2000. So far, advertisingpractitioners and researchers have neither reached a consensus on its effectiveness noron its usefulness for corporate communication. The authors conducted two studies: Oneto capture the opinions of advertisers on...

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.