Mit hohen Erwartungen startete Namibia im Jahre 1990 in ein demokratisches Experiment, dessen Entwicklung, nach nunmehr vierzehn Jahren, Gegenstand des vorliegenden Arbeitspapiers ist. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse stehen die politischen Parteien des Landes, die auf ihren Beitrag zur Konsolidierung...

Economic theory suggests that market structure variables influence technical change, growth and new product introductions. Based on a broad data set for new product introductions in various food industries, it is elaborated in this article how market structure variables affect innovative...

While there are suggestions in applied cartel studies that price dispersion changes when cartelization of a market occurs, there are few theoretical or empirical analyses of this effect. This article surveys the thin economic literature on the link between overt collusion and price dispersion....

This report explains the principal economic and legal features of a unique set of data on 283 modern private international cartels discovered anywhere in the world from January 1990 to the end of 2005. Measured in real 2005 money, aggregate cartel sales and overcharges totaled about $1.2...