We compare adversarial with cooperative industrial and trade policies in a dynamic oligopoly game in which a home and foreign firm compete in R&D and output and, because of spillovers, each firm benefits from the other's R&D. When the government can commit to an export subsidy, such a policy...

We examine the implications for strategic trade policy of different assumptions about precommitment in a two-period Cournot oligopoly game with learning by doing. The inability of firms and governments to precommit to future actions encourages strategic behaviour which justifies an optimal...

Despite the voluminous literature on North-South macroeconomic interactions and the key role of terms of trade variations in growth transmission from one region to another, a significant research gap persists for two reasons. First, there has been very little empirical work on testing of the...

Der Autor der vorliegenden Dissertation kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass in der bestehenden Literatur der unmittelbare Zusammenhang zwischen Wohlfahrt und staatlicher Beeinflussung der Belieferungswahl eines Unternehmers durch Subventionen nicht ausreichend analysiert worden ist. Deswegen wird ein...

This paper analyzes the incentives for governments to impose export subsidies when firms invest in a cost saving technology before market competition. Governments first impose an export subsidy or a tax. After observing export policy, firms invest in cost reducing R&D and subsequently compete in...

Ausgehend von der Feststellung, dass die Nutzenwahrnehmung durch den Konsumenten eine maßgebliche Größe zur Erklärung seines Konsumverhaltens ist, ist es Ziel dieser Arbeit, einen Markenführungsansatz zu entwickeln, welcher die Nutzendimensionen als Ankerpunkt für die Priorisierung von...

Human Resource Management (HR) as is known today is argued to have started as an approach which took naissance early in the 1900s from both the scientific management approach and the human relation approach (Grobler, Warnish, and Hatfield, 2002:5). These two approaches were considered at the...

This paper analyses the branding strategy of a leading French food producer in the fast growing Chinese market. The company, Danone Group (DG), has long been operating internationally with success. However, like several multinational enterprises, its initial entry into China was a failure....