In many industrialized countries, the grocery-retailing sector exhibits a strong and increasing market concentration. Hence, it is important to understand retail pricing for many questions related to market power in the marketing chain and to agricultural and food policies. We analyze...

The development of the Polish food retailing sector is very interesting. With the transition from a socialist to a market economy, structural change in the retailing sector has been especially rapid and the new open markets in Poland have attracted foreign investors throughout the economy in...

Like many other industrialised countries Germany has experienced a powerful concentration process in food retailing. There are some issues, however, which make Germany a special case in Europe and among industrialised countries in general. This holds true in terms of market structure and...

Vor dem Hintergrund eines steigenden Außer-Haus-Verzehrs gibt der Beitrag interessante Einblicke in die Preisgestaltung im Food-Service-Bereich auf Basis eines eigens erhobenen Querschnittsdatensatzes. Be­sonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf bequemen Transaktionspreisen, welche nach Knotek...

World markets for agricultural commodities are faced with increasing price fluctuations. When measuring these fluctuations, most researchers have focused on the construction of instabilty indicators not directly related to economic theory. In this article, a concept for measuring price...

It is the objective of this paper to provide a methodological framework for the analysis of regional marketing programs which inlclude regional-origin labelling as well as quality assurance and control. Such programs are increasingly being introduced in Europe and other parts of the world as a...

It is the objective of this paper to identify the determinants that led to the increase in worldwide foreign direct investment during the 1990s. The paper also addresses the question of whether these factors influenced exports differently. Therefore, using data from 22 countries reporting to the...