Over the past decade the scale of higher education in China has expanded substantially. Regional development policies attempted to make use of the scale expansion as a tool to reduce the inequality of higher education among different regions with different development levels through providing...

This paper solves one of the puzzles in the analysis of regional and industrial distributions of economic activity, the discrepancy between absolute and relative measures. It shows that the difference between an absolute and a relative Theil index of localization can be expressed in terms of...

This paper describes the Chinese economic and institutional reform process as a gradual transition of an informal, relation-based governance system into a more formal and rule-based governance system. The consequences of macro-level institutional reforms on the importance of personal...

In this paper we consider the impact of vertical integration on a retailer's choices of product variety and specific, brand-supporting investment. In an incomplete contract environment, vertical merger encourages investment in integrated supply, and foreclosure of non-integrated manufacturers....

This article extends the methodological toolbox of measures of regional concentration of industries and industrial specialization of regions. It first defines disproportionality measures of concentration and specialization and proposes a taxonomy of these measures. This taxonomy is based on...

Wirtschaftlicher Erfolg und moralische Akzeptanz der Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsordnung spielen für deren Stabilität und evolutorische Effizienz eine zentrale Rolle. Der Sozialismus hat beides, Erfolg und Akzeptanz, nicht bewirken können. Demgegenüber hat die Marktwirtschaft unbestreitbar...

Die Globalisierung wirtschaftlicher Aktivitäten bei gleichzeitiger Fragmentierung und Dynamisierung der Markts verschärft den internationalen Kosten- und Innovationswettbewerb. Flexibilität und Innovationsfähigkeit sind zu entscheidenden Wettbewerbsfaktoren geworden. Viele Unternehmen haben...