In this study, we regard the oligopolistic-oligopsonistic markets within the framework of a“double auction” in which both buyers and sellers make bids. To this end, we introduce gameswhere declarations of supply and demand functions (which need not be true) are treated asstrategic variables...

In developing countries, rising incomes, increased demand for more skilled labor, and government investments of considerable resources on building and equipping schools and paying teachers have contributed to global convergence in enrollment rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless,...

Das Kauf- und Entscheidungsverhalten der Konsumenten kann mit konventionellen Modellen desRationalverhaltens nicht erklärt werden. In diesem Beitrag wird aufgezeigt, wie Leitmotive undPersönlichkeitsmerkmale, aber besonders auch der jeweilige Kontext das sehr unterschiedliche undunbewusste...

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Basedon the theory of optimal taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometrictechniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current German tax and transfersystem for single women optimal...

This paper analyzes the problem of deriving predictions, regarding supply behavior of acompetitive firm, from prior consistency postulates about input-output choices made by such afirm. It extends the literature by introducing a consistency postulate for firm choice, which isweaker than...

Der Gesch¨aftsprozeß der Angebotsbearbeitung f¨ur Auftragsfertiger ist hinl¨anglich untersuchtund beschrieben1. Im Rahmen von Strategien zum Customer Relationship Management (CRM)und der Umsetzung von geeigneten Maßnahmen ger¨at das Angebotswesen als Gestaltungsgegenstandwieder ins Visier...

In 1996 the Potato Marketing Scheme was abolished ending forty years ofinstitutional control over the British potato market. This paper offers aretrospective analysis of the control mechanisms adopted and develops atheoretical model of supply response that reflects this policy environment....