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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?

Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019

): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of … manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct time periods of industrialization since 1990, and explain the nature of I4 … competencies, we find that the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary and Slovenia are most I4.0-ready, and that Bulgaria, Slovakia …

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Innovation and market concentration with asymmetric firms

Escrihuela-Villar, Marc (contributor) - 2004

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Technology foresight and industrial strategy in developing countries

Pietrobelli, Carlo; Puppato, Fernanda - 2015

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Tax policy, location choices, and market structure

Pfann, Gerard A.; Kranenburg, Hans L. van - 2002

A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model's test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...

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Diversified quality production revisited the transformation of production systems and regulatory regimes in Germany

Sorge, Arndt; Streeck, Wolfgang - 2016

We revisit the concept of Diversified Quality Production (DQP), which we introduced about thirty years ago. Our purpose is to examine the extent to which the concept can still be considered tenable for describing and explaining the development of the interaction between the political economy and...

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Licensing innovations : the case of the inside patent holder

Fan, Cuihong; Chŏn, Pyŏng-hŏn; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2015

The present paper reconsiders the inside innovators’ licensing problem under incomplete information. Employing an optimal mechanism design approach, we show that, contrary to what is claimed in the literature, the optimal mechanism may prescribe fixed fees, royalty rates lower than the cost...

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Germany's reluctance to regulate related party transactions : an industrial organization perspective

Tröger, Tobias - 2018

Germany Inc. was an idiosyncratic form of industrial organization that put financial institutions at the center. This paper argues that the consumption of private benefits in related party transactions by these key agents can be understood as a compensation for their coordinating and monitoring...

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Competition policy reform in Europe and Germany - institutional change in the light of digitization

Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2018

The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two relevant examples. These developments challenge competition...

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The third generation (UMTS) spectrum auction in Germany

Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2001

The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and presents a game theoretic explanation of observed...

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Cost-reduction innovation under mixed economy

Nie, Pu-yan; Yang, Yong-cong - 2015

Industries with mixed oligopoly are exceedingly popular all over the world, especially in developing countries, such as China. This paper highlights the innovation strategies of mixed duopoly with a (semi-) public firm and another private firm, and the effects of mixed oligopoly on innovation...

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