Während die meisten Netzsektoren wie etwa der Telekommunikations- oder der Flugsektor längst wettbewerblich organisiert sind, verbleibt der Trinkwassersektor in den meisten Ländern als letzte Bastion vertikal integrierter Versorgungsmonopole.Die Arbeit untersucht unter konsequenter Anwendung...

Over the past four decades, China has made fruitful achievements in agricultural development, which attracted a great deal of attention within the academy. Meanwhile, Chinese agriculture has also undergone dramatic and continuing structural changes (Chen et al. 2009; Cao and Birchenall 2013),...

The Chinese agri-food industry is evolving into an imperfectly competitive market in our observation. The issue deserves more attention from the policymakers since any negligible departure from the perfectly competitive market in agriculture would generate enormous extra profits for firms and...