telecommunications is in line with micro-economic theory, which predicts an increase in efficiency and lower prices when markets are …) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards deregulation of such industries has been observed. This trend started with … the economies of scale have disappeared as a result of emerging new technologies. The successful deregulation in …

costs. We used two different concepts of efficiency, namely, cost efficiency and alternative profit efficiency, and found … efficiency of CRBs. We failed to find very conclusive evidence that corporate governance theories apply to the Philippines' CRBs …. However, the results confirmed both managers' compensation theory and large stakeholders theory. The second proposition is …

gender governance. Results suggest that market conditions can explain to a certain extent the differences in the efficiency … among credit cooperatives. However, the correlates of agency costs do not have a clear-cut effect on the efficiency of … credit cooperatives. What is more significant though in this study is the effect on efficiency of women participation in the …

Determinanten des Globalisierungsgrades einer Branche ist die Höhe der Transaktionskosten. Niedrige Transaktionskosten führen … tendenziell zu globalisierten Märkten, hohe Transaktionskosten entsprechend zu segmentierten Märkten. Hinzu kommt, dass … Transaktionskosten auch Auskunft über den Grad des potentiellen Wettbewerbs geben können. Damit erhalten Wettbewerbsbehörden einen …

Der Beitrag stellt eine auf der Transaktionskosten-Ökonomik basierende Analyse von Kollisionsnormen vor. Hierzu wird … internationaler Rechtsordnungen und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Effizienz internationaler Handelsbeziehungen. …

characteristics of firms that opt to sign a voluntary agreement. In particular, it is shown that the efficiency of the scheme depends … voluntary agreements are energy-efficient firms, benefiting from an implicit subsidy for energy efficiency investments that …