Der Bericht informiert über das verbesserte Marketing ostdeutscher Hersteller. Insgesamt haben die ostdeutschen Unternehmen bei der Weiterentwicklung ihrer absatzwirtschatlichen Leistungsfähigkeit bis 1995 spürbare Fortschritte erzielt. Als wesentliche Problembereiche sind immer noch die...

This paper analyzes credit risk transfer in banking. Specifically, we model loan sales and loan insurance (e.g. credit default swaps) as the two instruments of risk transfer. Recent empirical evidence suggests that the adverse selection problem is as relevant in loan insurance as it is in loan...

We investigate the incentives of manufacturers to use resale price maintenance (RPM) when selling products through common retailers. In our model retailers provide product specific pre-sales services. If the competitive retail margins are low, each manufacturer fixes a minimum price to induce...