The traditional techniques of calculating quantity and price variances for analyzing deviations of realized profit contribution (actual) from the planned profit contribution only offer the benefit of identifying areas where problems may exist, rather than diagnosing the causes of these problems....

Almost all of the results on competitive product positioning derived in respective literature so far are based fimdamentally on the hypothesis that Nash-equilibria are "accurate predictions" of final market configurations. If the positioning behavior of firms differs from this assumed...

Güter und Dienstleistungen werden grundsätzlich für einen Markt bereitgestellt. Auf diesem Markt kommt es zum Ausgleich zwischen den angebotenen Gütern und Dienstleistungen und der Nachfrage der Kunden. Wenn der Anbieter seine Güter und Dienstleistungen auf dem Markt absetzen will, muss...

This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...

This paper examines equilibrium and stability in symmetric two-player cheap-talk games. In particular, we characterize the set of neutrally stable outcomes in finite cheap-talk 2 x 2 coordination games. This set is finite and functionally independent of risk-dominance relations. As the number of...

The EU agenda for improving competitiveness is missing in action. Economic competitiveness has been a central plank in the development of the European Union - a relentless quest for policies that lead to more prosperity and that make European companies in world markets more successful. However,...

Der Beitrag versucht, einen der modernen, kulturell heterogenen Gesellschaft angemessenen Begriff von sozialer Integration von Immigrant(inn)en zu definieren. Nach der Diskussion von drei klassischen Integrationsansätzen (Park; Gordon; Esser), die von einer Assimilation in einer als kulturell...