This paper tests whether the so-called ‘reach of the market’ helps to explain ‘why Europe’ and ‘why north-western Europe’. By looking at grain markets from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, this study concludes that the process of commodity market integration...

The relationship between inflation and the relative variability of prices has been the subject ofcareful investigation in the US using data for product groups at the city level. Yet in Europe,where the relationship could have profound effects on the viability of monetary integration, noattempt...

Grenzüberschreitende Unternehmenskooperationen haben seit den achtziger Jahre als dritte Form der Internationalisierung neben dem Direktexport und der Gründung von ausländischen Tochterunternehmen weltweit an Bedeutung gewonnen.