Öffentliche Mittel sind knapp. Mehr denn je muss sparsam gewirtschaftet werden. Können aber öffentliche Haushalte noch mehr sparen, ohne dass es zu schlechteren Leistungen kommt? Die vorliegende Studie belegt, daß Einsparungen sogar bei Verbesserung der Leistungen möglich sind. Auf der...

Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of cannibalizing sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is no...

In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial characteristics of an economy, in our case the German economy. Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by...