Seit der Deregulierung des deutschen Strommarktes im Jahre 1998 werden die Netznutzungsentgelte durch Verhandlungen zwischen den Energieerzeugern und den industriellen Nutzern festgelegt. Da die Stromnetze als nicht-bestreitbare natürliche Monopolisten anzusehen sind, können die Netzbetreiber...

We argue that, under certain conditions, firms consider exports as a substitute for domestic demand. Our econometric model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand and capacity constraints as additional variables for export equations. We apply the exponential and logistic variant of...

I present a dynamic fixed cost model of export participation extended by a capital theoretic concept of the customer stock. Plants that want to start exporting have to invest into a market specific factor which serves as input into a decreasing returns to scale technology generating sales...