A variety of approaches has been developed to deal with uncertain optimization problems. Often, they start with a given set of uncertainties and then try to minimize the influence of these uncertainties. The reverse view is to first set a budget for the price one is willing to pay and then find...

We present an adaptive grid refinement algorithm to solve probabilistic optimization problems with infinitely many random constraints. Using a bilevel approach, we iteratively aggregate inequalities that provide most information not in a geometric but in a probabilistic sense. This conceptual...

Deutschland steckt in einer Umbruchphase. Der Trend zu Produktionsverlagerungen hat in den letzten Jahren in steigendem Maße auch mittelständische Unternehmen erfasst. Während die großen Konzerne auf Grund ihrer Ressourcen weltweit aktiv sein können, nutzen kleinere Firmen die...

Auch Tobias Seidel, CES, folgt dieser Argumentationslinie im Rahmen der klassischen Handelstheorie und eines Zwei-Güter-Zwei-Länder-Ansatzes - allerdings unter der Annahme rigider Löhne - und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Verteidigung des hohen Lohnniveaus gegen die Marktkräfte zwar zu...

Within a country, there are major differences between regions in terms of economic activity and socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions. These interact to a considerable extent with people's preferences as to where they want to settle and the resulting (dis)agglomeration effects....

I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm's decision about serving foreign customers through exports or local sales from an affiliated plant. When contracts between two agents within a firm are too costly to write, the share of multinational firms may be higher or lower...