We revisit the concept of Diversified Quality Production (DQP), which we introduced about thirty years ago. Our purpose is to examine the extent to which the concept can still be considered tenable for describing and explaining the development of the interaction between the political economy and...

A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model?s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...

Der Beitrag analysiert die Wechselwirkungen der Zentralität eines Ortes mit der Alltagsmobilität im Bundesland Oberösterreich. Für die im Oberösterreichischen Landesraumordnungsprogramm festgelegten Zentralitätsstufen wird auf Basis der Oberösterreichischen Verkehrserhebung das...

Over the past three decades, trading in asset markets has become progressively more short-term oriented ("faster"), with traders attempting to exploit intraday price trends. Yet, over this time, asset prices have continued to move in a sequence of alternating "bull markets" and "bear markets",...

Aufgrund des Strukturwandels, der viele Lebensbereiche betrifft, drängt sich der Vergleich in der individuellen Betrachtung der Wirkung von Projekten auf. Dazu wird zur Schaffung einer Vergleichbarkeit ein quantitativer Maßstab eingesetzt, um Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte zu evaluieren und somit...

We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...