Many firms closed down during the transformation process in East Germany. The firms surviving from the former GDR have not reached the required level of economic Performance. Therefore, particularly new…
With the referral of the Kodak - Fuji market access dispute to the World Trade Organization, the role of retail distribution channel control by incumbent firms as a barrier to imports has drawn much interest.…
During the past half century many nations have adopted policies whose function is to discourage cartels and other restrictive practices. Industrialized nations led the movement toward pro-competition policies,…
As the 20th Century dawned, there were radical divergences in the policies individual nations pursued toward restraints of competition by cartels and monopolies. Since World War II there has been considerable…
Based on the data of the first wave of the Mannheim Innovation panel,this paper explores the link between R&D expenditures and patents. Ourdata allow a detailed analysis of the firm size distribution of R&Dand…
With the completion of the Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations, attention turns to plausible next steps. One question on the agenda of possibilities is the adoption of competition policies that…
Changing product quality poses a challenge for the computation of price indexes, in particular in technologically advanced industries. We assess the differences between traditional and quality-corrected indexes…