This paper analyses the institutional framework for pharmacies in Germany and competition in that sector, which is … characterized by significant competition deficits. Based on our diagnosis and findings the advantages and disadvantages of two …

) that profit signals and rewards successful value creation, since it expresses that the customers' voluntary willingness to …

renewable energy and which factors impact on this exploitation efficiency? By applying the new quantitative-empirical concept of … exploitation efficiency, we measure the degree, to which regions have exploited their natural and socio-economic potentials of … use a robust, non-parametric efficiency analysis and validate its results by qualitative expert interviews in selected …

outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …

role of an active market for corporate control and of competition in banking integration. European listed banks … profitability appears to converge to a common level. There is weak evidence that competition eliminates high profits for these banks …, and high profit banks see their profits driven down quickly. …

die Niederlande führt zu unbefriedigenden Ergebnissen. …-cost-margins over the business cycle for food industries in Germany, the USA as well as the Netherlands. Controlling for market … econometric model does not adequately explain industry differences in profitability in the Netherlands. …

Wage Dispersion and Efficiency. It is often assumed that markets generate efficient allocations, but these are not … compensating differentials will increase both efficiency and fairness, quite in line with the classical position taken by Adam …

finding is that firms? idiosyncratic efforts and the tendency for competition to equalize profit rates are two sides of the … distribution of firms? profit rates, which turns out to be an exponential power (or Subbotin) distribution. Moreover, we construct …

lines of profit orientation, companies serve the common good. (2) If structurally weak areas experience factory closures …

ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one …