Poverty remains a pervasive problem all over the world, but the problem is worst in underdeveloped areas like Africa. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very successful in helping survival microenterprises, i.e.,...

This paper investigated the structure of the market, efficiency and performance (profitability) of the general insurance industry in the Ghanaian economy. The overriding objective was to evaluate the impact that regulatory informed market structure would have on the pricing behaviour; examining...

economic cohesion and diversity, whose main purpose is to proclaim priority values for the society that need to be realized. Well-conceived and implemented territorial marketing strategy is the basis for sustainable regional development that resolves in well-being of the actors who live on that...

Different markets are cleared by different types of prices—seller-specific prices that are uniform across buyers in some markets, and personalized prices tailored to the buyer in others. We examine a setting in which buyers and sellers make investments before matching in a competitive market....

In two-sided markets a platform allows consumers and sellers to interact by creating sub-markets within the platform marketplace. For example, Amazon has sub-markets for all of the different product categories available on its site, and smartphones have sub-markets for different types of...

Um die Klimaziele zu erreichen, sollte in Europa neben Anstrengungen zur Verbesserung der Energieeffizienz vor allem der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien vorangetrieben werden. Europäische Rahmenbedingungen für Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien müssen verbessert, Subventionen für fossile und...