infonet-economy

Zimmermann, Thomas A.: WTO Dispute Settlement - An Important Trade Policy Instrument; Presentation at the 64th Session of the OECD Steel Committee; Paris (La Défense): Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 22 May 2008 / Präsentation an der 64. Sitzung des OECD Stahlausschusses; Paris (La Défense): Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung...

Wenn sich Marketingexperten in der Vergangenheit an der Schnittstelle zwischen Marketing und Finance bewegten, standen häufig die Effekte bestimmter Marketingmassnahmen auf den Börsenkurs im Mittelpunkt. Wie sich jedoch die Börsennotierung und damit eine stringente Orientierung am Shareholder Value auf das Marketingmanagement auswirkt, wurde bislang kaum untersucht. Eine explorative...

We use Bayesian model averaging to analyze the sample evidence on industry return predictability within the U.S. stock market in the presence of model uncertainty. The posterior analysis shows the importance of in.ation and earnings yield in predicting industry returns. The analysis shows that the out-of-sample performance of the Bayesian approach is, in general, superior to that of...

Current constructions of heterosexual parenthood in western societies seem to be trapped in a change-retention dilemma. Many elements have changed, but many others have stayed the same. Although ‘new fathers' do change diapers, the mother is very often seen as the ‘main parent'. Parenthood is still constructed along the heterosexual gender binary that equates women with...

Using a sample of 106 organizations engaged in strategic alliances, we develop and test a framework of alliance-related organizational decision-making processes and their impact on alli-ance performance. With regard to direct effects, our results show a negative impact of decision-making recursiveness and no significant relationship for openness and procedural rationality....

Es lohnt sich, das Management von kleinen Geschäften und Kunden zu optimieren. Dieser Beitrag zeigt einige Ergebnisse des Arbeitsteams "B-to-B-Marketing , das sich im Rahmen der Forschungskooperation "Dialogmarketing ,revisited' damit beschäftigt hat, wie Unternehmen auch im Kleinkunden-Segment profitables Wachstum erzielen.

Depending on the definition of the tax base, the statutory corporate tax rate implies rather different measures of effective average and marginal tax rates. This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive...