Coevolution of alliance portfolios and organizations: A cross sector analysis of new technology based firms in the European Mobile Internet industry / Tillmann von Schroeter, EXIST-HighTEPP at the University of Bamberg. Strategic alliances and partnerships have extensively been studied over the...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Anwendbarkeit des HarrisTodaro Modells für Land-Stadt-Migrations-Prozesse inEntwicklungsländern. Dabei geht es nicht nur um das Basismodel,sondern auch um die Modell-Erweiterungen, die internationalenHandel, einen städtischen informellen Sektor und die Aspekte...

The thesis addresses the question of how poverty can be overcome by education. The starting point is the following type of poverty trap: poverty forces parents to send their children to work to secure the survival of the household. Due to child labor, children do not attend school and do not...

Die zentrale Fragestellung dieses Buches behandelt das Problem, wie neu erzeugtes Wissen aus dem System der Wissenschaft in das ?konomische System gelangen und dort wertsch?pfungsgenerierend appliziert werden kann. Der Handlungsspielraum bzw. die Nutzung neuen Wissens im Wirtschaftssystem sollte...

In this paper we develop a spatial Cournot trade model with two unequally sized countries, using the geographical interpretation of the Hotelling line. We analyze the trade and welfare effects of international trade between these two countries. The welfare analysis indicates that in this...

One of the fundamental normative questions within international trade theory is whether free trade is better than autarky and, if so, in what sense and to what extent. Surprisingly, the literature contains just a few formal models constructed under discrete time and investigating the...

The idea of a flat tax, a tax levied at a single rate, has become an increasingly discussed and implemented fiscal strategy across Europe and the rest of the world. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania adopted flat tax systems in 1994 and 1995, making them the first modern countries to adopt flat...