Production and processing of head cabbage has a significant economic importance for New York State agriculture. New York produces about one-fourth of the total U.S. head cabbage output, with 79 percent destined to the fresh market. In the U.S., New York is the number one producer of fresh head...

It has been argued that having a contract market before the spot market enhances competition (Allaz and Vila, 1993). Taking into account the repeated nature of electricity markets, we check the robustness of the argument that the access to contract markets reduces the market power of generators....

In 2010, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the credit card networks American Express, MasterCard, and Visa for alleged antitrust violations. We evaluate the extent to which the recently proposed settlement between the DOJ and Visa and MasterCard (henceforth, Proposed...

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

Outsourcing IT to specialized providers 'off-shore' has become an important option for many western companies for maintaining or improving their competitiveness. The vast majority of those specialized IT providers are located in Asia, especially in India. Relatively little is known though about...

In diesem Beitrag wurde ein Rahmenmodell für elektronische Transportmärkte vorgestellt, das einen systematischen Überblick möglicher Funktionalitäten und den erreichten Entwicklungsstand aufzeigt. Auf dieser Grundlage werden typische Strukturen von Transportmärkten identifiziert und auf...

Ziel des vorliegenden Arbeitspapier ist es Möglichkeiten für eine stärkere Marktöffnung der Trinkwasserversorgung aufzuzeigen. Weiterhin sollen die daraus entstehenden Folgen für Unternehmen, Beschäftigte, Verbraucher, Kommunen, Gesundheits- und Umweltschutz abgeschätzt werden.