This paper is concerned with comparing adversarial with co-operative industrial and trade policies in a dynamic oligopoly game in which a home and foreign firm compete in R&D and output and, because of spillovers, each firm benefits from the other's R&D. Because the government cannot commit to...

It is often argued that firms need flexibility in order to better face demand uncertainty. As employment protection legislation (EPL) impacts the cost of volume adjustments available to firms, it constrains the volume flexibility that they can achieve. Weakening EPL might thus be thought of as a...

Why do governments employ inefficient policies to redistribute income towards special interest groups (SIGs) when more efficient ones are available? To address this puzzle we derive and test predictions for a set of policies where detailed data is available and an efficiency ranking is feasible:...

Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, ob und auf welche Weise für Unternehmen mit Pensionsrückstellungen, Verbindlichkeiten aus Lieferungen und Leistungen und andere Passivpositionen eine Bewertungstheorie in der Tradition des Discounted Cashflows angewendet werden...