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Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...
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questions:(1) How does the existing antitrust-law in the United States, Germany, and the European Union affect the behavior of … relevant interestgroups? (2) Is it possible to improve the efficiency of the existing antitrust-laws in Germany and in the EU … by introducing an privat action clause comparable to the US-antitrust-laws? …
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Die Internationalisierung der Wettbewerbspolitik wird unter dem Aspekt untersucht, wie Staaten ihre wettbewerbspolitischen Maßnahmen im internationalen Handel strategisch ausnutzen können. In Analogie zur strategischen Handelspolitik werden die unilateral gesetzten Wettbewerbspolitiken mit der...
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The price variable is among the most powerful instruments in the arsenal of the executives to achieve entry deterrence objectives. There are two main pricing strategies that firms may use to defend against a competitive market entry. The first of these options, limit pricing (or entry deterring...
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and regulation and productivity measurement of the German electricity industry in particular. The methodological approach …
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This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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Although global changes like political security, depletion of natural resources,energy supply and global warming are affecting all continents; Africa strugglethe most to cope with these changes. This is due to the many historicalimpediments that Africa still has to overcome. Examples of these...
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Die Arbeit ist mit den ökonomischen Auswirkungen von Regulierungen, die für die deutsche Filmwirtschaft relevant sind, befasst. Es werden die ökonomischen Effekte dreier Regulierungsfelder, die in der öffentlichen Debatte diskutiert werden, betrachtet. Diese sind: Das deutsche...
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Regulation, like many other policy decisions, results out of a complex process that is shaped by political as well as … influence the price-regulatory regime under which they operate. Accounting for this endogenous selection, price regulation is … observed to decrease cellular tariffs. However, regulation is not particularly effective in reducing prices because firms …
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Allokationsverfahren zur Vergabe von Zutrittslizenzen an Marktneulinge differieren hinsichtlich mehrerer Aspekte. Einer davon ist die Veröffentlichung der vom Regulierer im Lizenzvergabeverfahren gesammelten Informationen. Der Autor untersucht den Einfluss der Informationsweitergabe auf die...
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