This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers. We use data from IKEA, a furniture company selling identical products in an identical shopping environment in different EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law...

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less regulated labour and product markets in the US. Based on the Comparative German American Structural Database and the International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of...

In the 1990s, institutional and evolutionary economics emerged as one of the most creative and successful approaches in the modern social sciences. This timely reader gathers together seminal contributions from leading international authors in the field of institutional and evolutionary...

The original essays in this book have been written by a number of leading international experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lifetime achievement of Günther Schmid.

Auf die Finanzkrise haben die Zentralbanken und die Regierungen mit ungewöhnlichen Maßnahmen reagiert. Die Geldpolitik senkt die Zentralbankzinsen bis auf die Nullgrenze, die Wirtschaftspolitik ist bemüht, mit riesigen Konjunkturprogrammen die Rezession zu bekämpfen. Diese Maßnahmen...