The design of the distribution system is a Strategie issue for almost every Company. The Problem of locating facilities and allocating customers Covers the core topics of distribution system design. Model formulations and Solution algorithms which address the issue vary widely in terms of...

Die Verbesserung der Standortbedingungen in Ostdeutschland ist weiter vorangekommen. Das bestätigen die Ergebnisse einer im Sommer 2000 vom DIW Berlin durchgeführten Umfrage in der ostdeutschen Industrie. Als ein Standortvorteil werden inzwischen die Lohnkosten angesehen, da die...

Die ostdeutsche Industrie ist seit Längerem im Aufwind: Die Produktion wächst stärker als in den alten Ländern, und die Exportquote nimmt überproportional zu. Auch die Beschäftigungsentwicklung ist in Ostdeutschland günstiger als in den alten Ländern. Seit der Aufnahme der...

In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich die Kreativwirtschaft - Medien, Information und Kommunikation sowie Kultur - in Deutschland deutlich überdurchschnittlich entwickelt, und ihre Konzentration auf die großen Stadtregionen ist weiter gestiegen. Unter den sieben führenden kreativwirtschaftlichen...

This paper studies the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental policy stringency in a two-country model with trade costs, where FDI could be unilateral and bilateral and both governments address local pollution through environmental taxes. We show that FDI does not give rise...

We analyze the impact of technology on production and trade in services, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We identify exogenous technological changes by the connection of countries to submarine fiber-optic cables used for electronic trading, but which were not laid for purposes related...

The paper explores abatement investment and location responses to environmental policy, which takes the form of emission taxes or tradable emission permits and subsidies against the costs of abatement investment, under uncertainty and irreversibility. Uncertainty is associated with output price,...

We analyze a two-stage game in a vertically differentiated duopoly with two regions which can differ for the willingness to pay of their consumers or for the market size; firms sequentially choose to settle in one region and then simultaneously compete in prices, selling their products both on...

We use information from the tax returns of U.S. multinational corporations to address three questions related to tax competition. First, does tax competition or company tax planning behavior better explain recent decreases in the local effective tax rates faced by U.S. multinationals investing...

Entrepreneurship is an important process in regional economic development. Especially the continued growth of a minority of new firms is of major significance to the commercialization of new ideas and employment growth. These growing new firms are transforming on a structural basis, like...