This paper studies the dynamics of an industry that is subject to exclusive geographical licensing. I develop a model of license ownership that predicts the evolution of profit-maximizing entry and acquisition decisions by firms over time, starting from an initial allocation of licenses. The...

As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes...

Managers in a global business environment work with people who have different values, behavioral norms, and ways of perceiving reality. Team members bring their different national and professional backgrounds to the table, and suppliers and clients come from different corporate cultures....

Dieser Beitrag ist der Zeit- und Ressourcenplanung der fliegerischen Theorieausbildung bei der Lufthansa Flight Training GmbH (LFT) gewidmet, Gemeinsamkeiten mit ähnlichen Problemen anderer Schulungsanbieter veranlaßten uns, diese als Elemente eines eigenständigen Problemfeldes zu betrachten,...

Several well-known and well-researched problem fields, such as school scheduling or university scheduling, reside in the realm of educational scheduling. Recently, some new course scheduling problems have begun to draw attention, which turn out to sport substantially more complex requirements...

Lufthansa Technical Training GmbH (LIT) performs training courses for Lufthansa AG as well as for several other international airlines. Courses of about 670 different types are offered of which several hundred take place each year. The course scheduling problem faced by LTT is to develop a...

Im Rahmen der 1995 erfolgten Umstrukturierung der Deutschen Lufthansa AG sind aus einzelnen Unternehmensbereichen selbständige Tochterunternehmen entstanden. Hierzu gehört auch die Lufthansa Technical Training GmbH (LTT) mit Schulungseinrichtungen in Berlin, Frankfurt und Hamburg. Kunden der...

Zunehmend wird die ökonomische Standardbildung für ihre Weltfremdheit, Einseitigkeit und Unreflektiertheit kritisiert. Die Autorin fragt nach den möglichen Wirkungen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungen dieses kritisierten Zustandes: Vermag er einer blinden Marktgläubigkeit Vorschub zu...

As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of Education Systems' (PASEC) for five francophone, sub-Saharan African countries, this paper goes...

Outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries has increased the focus on the accumulation of skills - such as Math skills - in high-wage countries. In this paper, we exploit a high school pilot scheme to identify the causal effect of advanced high school Math on labor market outcomes. The pilot...