The bilateral WTO Agreement on Trade in Large Civil Aircraft (TLCA) of 1992 regulated the permitted levels of support for the European and American aviation industries. In October 2004, the US unilaterally withdrew from the TLCA, right as Boeing was about to lose its market leader status....

Summary Kristof Dascher’s (2005) hypothesis that the level of vacant accommodation in eastern Germany can be mitigated by lowering housing rents can be countered by an argument based on alternative, but market-oriented costs from the housing economy, which postulates that from the owners’...

Zusammenfassung Bei der NATO-Osterweiterung spielen die Kosten eine erhebliche Rolle, zumal erste Studien die Kosten im dreistelligen $-Milliardenbereich ansiedelten. Diese, aber auch neuere Studien, die im Gegensatz hierzu an die Aussage grenzen, daß kaum zusätzliche Kosten auftreten werden,...

When decisions are made to construct new stadia or to undertake major renovation work, the decision makers often assume that more spectators will be attracted. This so-called “novelty effect” is used as an argument that an impulse towards increased demand for the region and its services will...