This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...

The work presented here is part of a wider research programme oriented around three specific questions. First, how do individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents?...

The purpose of the Thesis is to generalize a scheme of evaluation and to measure competitive ability of Private Company “Vilniaus duona” after the analysis of methodical – academic works on competitive environment. After applying the scheme, it was identified that the Company is...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Diskussion der institutionellen Ausgestaltung der Schieneninfrastruktur. Es wird diskutiert, welche Privatisierungsmodelle welche Anreize auf Schieneninfrastrukturunternehmen aus?ben und wie diese auf den Nutzen der individuellen Nachfrager nach Schieneninfrastruktur...