This paper uses a partial adjustment approach to measure the contribution of public infrastructure to local private production. In the first step of the empirical analysis we apply a principal component analysis in order to construct 2 new infrastructure indicators from an array of 7 measures of...

Network industries with low sunk costs have been popular examples for the theory of contestable markets and spatial competition models. We argue that, due to the multimarket nature of operations, theories of predation are more relevant to explain strategic behaviour. Building on well established...

This paper explores the anticompetitive effects that wage determination between an employers. association and the industry.s labor union may have when wages are generally binding. It is shown that employers. associations can, under certain circumstances, use generally binding standard wages to...

The purpose of this discussion paper is to contribute to the analysis of two questions. Should a merger control system take into account efficiency gains from horizontal mergers, and balance these gains against the anti-competitive effects of mergers? If so, how should a system be designed to...

This paper considers merger control in a common agency framework where firms and their competitors can influence the antitrust agency and where transparency – while making lobbying less effective – also implies real resource costs. We examine the performance of two alternative standards that...

Die Arbeit beschreibt die unterschiedlichen institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen, unter welchen Planung und Finanzierung von Infrastruktur in Deutschland und Frankreich realisiert werden. Weiterhin werden die wirtschaftlichen Effekte von Infrastruktur ökonometrisch für deutsche und französische...

Ausgangspunkt dieses Forschungsdesigns bildet die marginale Integration von Frauen in den wissenschaftlichen Produktionsprozeß und die begrenzten Erfolge von Frauenförderungsmaßnahmen einerseits sowie der sich abzeichnende Strukturwandel im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem mit veränderten...

Neben den Niederlanden ist Dänemark das einzige Land in der Europäischen Union, dem es gelang, die Arbeitslosigkeit seit 1994 - also innerhalb einer Regierungsperiode - zu halbieren. Bemerkenswert ist vor allem, daß die saisonbereinigte Arbeitslosigkeit der unter 25jährigen von 13,2 Prozent...

This study examines the possible health impact of marginal employment, including both temporary and part-time employment schemes. It addresses a growing concern in Europe that fixed-term employment and other forms of marginal employment may generate social inequality. Logistic regression models...

The radar chart approach is one of a number of special analytical tools that have been developed in connection with benchmarking in the private and public sectors. Although well established as a management tool, the radar chart approach has to our knowledge never been applied to benchmarking...