infonet-economy

This text inquires in a poetic way the possibility of theatrical space by exploring the question "what space makes theatre possible?". The central argument is that threatre creates an intensive yet fragile space of possibility and the possible through creating affects. The text, written in between a prelude and an epilogue, approaches this space of desire and intensity...

Using survey data on technical assistance projects that was collected by the International Competition Network's Competition Policy Implementation Working Group during 2004 and 2005, I estimate the effect of different types of technical assistance on several performance measures of recipient competition authorities. Moreover, I examine whether the impact of each type of...

During the current phase of international market integration one important form of corporate restructuring is through cross-border merger or acquisition. Even though such restructuring typically affects the markets of more than one economy, almost all reviews of mergers and acquisitions consider only intra-jurisdictional effects. A prominent international initiative, that has the...

Jahresbericht - In this paper, problems of the Swiss health system and possible solutions are discussed. First, the development of health expenditure and its structure during the last decades is shown, also in comparison with the development in other countries. Then, core problems of the health system like supplier induced demand are discussed. It is shown which factors are...

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On 1 January 1995, the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU) entered into force. Since 1998, negotiations to review and reform the DSU have taken place ('DSU review'), without however yielding any result so far. This study proposes to analyse the DSU review negotiations and the proposals submitted so far....

Viele Probleme, die im Rahmen von Supply Chain Management
auftreten, lassen sich auf eine mangelnde unternehmensübergreifende
Visibilität kritischer Logistikprozesse zurückführen. Da sich Störungen im Leistungserstellungsprozess niemals vollständig eliminieren
lassen, müssen Planabweichungen in der Wertschöpfungskette
zeitnah erkannt werden, um so zeitnah...

Die sich immer schneller verändernden Umfelder heutiger Märkte haben erhebliche Auswirkun-gen auf die Konfiguration und das Design von Supply Chains. So führt der Aufbau virtueller Unternehmen sowie globaler Logistikverbünde und -allianzen zu einer Zunahme an komplexen, unternehmensinternen und -übergreifenden Managementaktivitäten. Vielfach erfordern die Individualisierungen von...