Empirical research has shown tremendous productivity differences, even within narrowly defined industries. A great host of studies is explainsing this productivity disparity by factors such as idiosyncratic technology shocks, input price differences, management skills, or international trade....

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

Corporate bankruptcy in Germany has been on a long-run decline. Even before the recent double crisis of the pandemic and multiple cost shocks, bankruptcy figures were one-third lower than around the turn of the century but were larger and affected more mature firms. With the onset of the double...

Traditionally, magazines have operated in a two-sided market, serving two groups of customers at the same time: readers and advertisers. With the rise of the Internet, further demand channels have been explored: readers can now access much of the contents also on the magazine's website, which in...

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

Pricing-to-market (PTM) evidence in German sugar confectionery exports is examined, combining the original fixed-effects model of Knetter (1989) and an errorcorrection specification (ECM) at three frequency levels, to assess how neglecting time-series properties and the choice of frequency...

It is the objective of this paper to quantify the significance of fundamental factors (like rising fuel costs) and of the increasing exercise of market power on rising prices in the German wholesale electricity market. A successive MIP/LP approach was used for this. The calculations show that,...

In order to investigate firm survival and the potential for competition in the German postal market, I analyzed key success determinants of market leader competitors. The analysis is based on eight 2011 case studies, in which I conducted in-depth interviews during on-site visits to various...

How can small and medium-sized German postal providers ensure nationwide geographical coverage without the aid of the former monopolist? A closer look at the industry revealed that postal providers in Germany engage in different types of cooperation in order to expand their geographical coverage...

Die Institution Betriebsrat zeichnet sich angesichts des starken oekonomischen und technisch-organisatorischen Wandels in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten durch eine relativ hohe Kontinuitaet aus. Die Betriebsratsforschung hat in dieser Zeit einen Aufschwung erfahren. Neue Fragestellungen wurden...