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Competition regimes in telecommunications and the international trading system
Koopmann, Georg - 2001
In most countries, competition in the telecommunications industry is subject to both sector-specific regulation and more general antitrust policies. At the same time, a process of international market liberalisation is under way in telecommunications which can only be truly effective - and...
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Corporate strategies in the telecommunications sector in an environment of continuing liberalization
Borrmann, Christine - 2001
The article refers to the interplay between deregulation resp. liberalization of the telecommunications sector and the market behaviour of TC-firms. In the past monopolization of the sector left the PTTs in a comfortable national monopolistic situation, but substantially confined their scope of...
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Locating foreign affiliates in Germany: The case of Swedish MNEs
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001
This paper uses a dataset on the foreign activities by Swedish manufacturing firms to examine the performance of German affiliates compared with affiliates in other locations. It is found that German affiliates, on average, have higher labour productivity, R&D expenditure per employee and...
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Transaktionskosten und Wettbewerbspolitik
Busse, Matthias - 2001
The globalisation of the world economy increases international competition among companies. However, not all industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295596
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Internationalisierung der Wettbewerbspolitik: Korrelat zur internationalen Handelspolitik?
Koopmann, Georg - 2000
Die Liberalisierung und Integration von Märkten kann zu einer deutlichen Verstärkung negativer externer Effekte der Wettbewerbspolitik der Behörden und der Wettbewerbsstrategien der Unternehmen eines Landes in anderen Ländern führen. Dieser Entwicklung könnte durch eine...
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Defining investment additionality for CDM projects: Practical approaches
Langrock, Thomas; Michaelowa, Axel; Greiner, Sandra - 2000
The environmental integrity of the CDM under the Kyoto Protocol depends on the possibility to avoid giving emission credits to projects that would have happened anyway. Whether and how ?Investment Additionality? of CDM projects has to be determined is currently part of climate negotiations. We...
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Culture and finance in a globalised world – An uneasy relation
Reszat, Beate - 2000
thereby also perhaps their influence on the culture world: The ever-increasing proportion of financial decisions made in so …-called 'non-places' and the role of finance in a virtual world. … Finanzzentren der Welt in immer stärkerem Wettbewerb zueinander stehen, und Kultur ist ein bestimmendes Element der …
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Why do we need a general agreement on movements of people (GAMP)?
Straubhaar, Thomas - 2000
This paper argues that global games need global rules. Times of globalisation call for an international framework to regulate efficiently international movements of people. More than ever before, migration is a global phenomenon. This paper discusses the economic necessity of a shift from...
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FDI versus cross-border financial services: The globalisation of German banks
Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2004
The choice between foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports has been a recurrent theme in the literature on international trade, yet few studies have analysed this choice at the level of the individual firm. This paper uses a new dataset to study the FDI-versus-exports decision for banks. We...
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International diversification at home and abroad
Cai, Fang; Warnock, Francis E. - 2005
We analyze foreigners' and domestic institutional investors' positions in U.S. equities. Controlling for many factors, we uncover a common preference for large firms and firms that are diversified internationally. The domestic preference for internationally diversified firms implies that...
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