Die Zukunft der deutschen Braunkohle in einer zunehmend von erneuerbaren Energieträgern geprägten Stromwirtschaft wird derzeit kontrovers diskutiert. An allen drei Braunkohlestandorten (Rheinisches, Mitteldeutsches und Lausitzer Revier) gibt es Pläne zum Bau neuer Braunkohlekraftwerke sowie...

This paper replicates two spatial monopoly models by Takayama and Judge. The first one is a simple spatial monopoly model. The second model allows the activity of arbitrage between any pains of consumption regions if the price differential exceeds the corresponding unit transportation cost. With...

Deriving a functional form for a series of prices over time is difficult. It is common to assume some linearly estimable form for prediction purposes. While this can produce accurate short run forecasts it fails to identify longer trends and patterns that may exist in financial data....

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of economic integration among countries on firms investment decisions when such decisions are taken strategically. It is shown that, in this context, the traditional "tariff jumping" argument is not always applicable and that localisation...

Most of Business Excellence – Total Quality models provide a static view and processing of Total Quality issues. This paper proposes a system of Business Excellence taking into consideration: current European practices of Total Quality and competitiveness, a modular, open architecture like...