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Einer der grundlegendsten Ansätze der modernen Industrieökonomik, dasCournot-Modell, geht von Unternehmen aus, die im Wettbewerb Mengen festlegen. Der Preis wirdanschließend von einem Auktionator bestimmt. Im Allgemeinen legen Unternehmen jedoch Preiseund nicht Mengen fest. Das Cournot-Modell...
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Pork production has seen a period of volatility that it has not seen before. Duringthis period, there has been a rise in a number of issues. Pork producers must deal withnarrowing margins, environmental issues, animal welfare issues, integration, andslaughter capacity concerns. These issues have...
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We present and test a model relating a firm's idiosyncratic cost, its exporting status, and the volatilities of its domestic and export sales. In prior models of trade, supply costs for domestic and exports were linear and thus additively separable. We introduce a nonlinear cost function in...
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This paper describes and tries to quantify the effects of some factors that have affected costs of state owned electric utilities in Mexico (energy losses, fuel and labor). It is noted that the impact of the increases in fuel prices on the electric utilities' total cost in the last years has...
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[Introduction] Germany currently finds itself in a difficult economic situation, one characterised not only by a long period of weak economic growth, but also by developments that, if the necessary adjustment processes are not accomplished, pose a threat to Germany's medium-term growth...
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Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen, beschäftigt sich in seinem Kommentar mit der Frage nach der Höhe des Auslandsanteils an den Fertigungskosten bei einigen deutschen Automobilherstellern. Dabei beschäftigt er sich insbesondere mit dem Porsche Cayenne. Er zeigt,...
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Bitcoins werden in der Öffentlichkeit momentan vor allem unter den Aspekten des »staatsfernen« Geldes und der Gefahren einer spekulativen Blase diskutiert. In der Euphorie über die neue Form digitaler Währung wird häufig übersehen, dass Bitcoins und andere Kryptowährungen im Gegensatz...
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This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industrylevel competitiveness for the manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international perspective. We find that China has increased its labor...
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