Urban Policy Analysis
Ulrich Blum, R. Funck
External Publications,
1981
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Unterschiedliche Marktkonstellationen. Was unterscheidet die Entwicklung in der VR China von den Ländern der ehemaligen Sowjetunion und den Visegrádstaaten?
Silke Tober, Hansjörg Herr
External Publications,
1999
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Unternehmensbewertung, Rating und Risikobewältigung
Ulrich Blum, Werner Gleißner
Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Technischen Universität Dresden,
2006
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We inquire into the possibilities to improve the stability of the firms by better managing risk. We propose to directly link risk management to rating, i.e. the ability to meet future financial obligations. Principal elements of rating methodology are discussed against the background of risk management. Next to the rating mark the risk-related requirements for equity become the central measure for risk. Firms must balance the costs of improving their rating against the gains of an improved rating. Risk management is a major driver to improve shareholder value. Risk aggregation is the dominant method that uses information from risk management and synthesizes unique measure of value.
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The Contribution of SADC Central Banks to Regional Integration
Tobias Knedlik
Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook, Vol. 3,
2003
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The Contestable Markets Theory - Efficient Advice for Economic Policy
Christian Growitsch, Thomas Wein
External Publications,
2004
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During the nineties of the last century several formerly monopolistic markets (telecommunication, electricity, gas, and railway) have been deregulated in Germany based on European directives and theoretically inspired by the theory of contestable markets. The original contestable market theory implied three assumptions necessary to be satisfied to establish potential competition: Free market entry, market exit possible without any costs, and the price adjustment lag exceeding the entry lag. Our analysis shows that if the incumbent reduces its prices slowly (high adjustment lag) and the market entry can be performed quickly (low entry lag), a new competitor will be able to earn back sunk costs. Therefore it is not necessary that all three conditions be complied with for potential competition to exist. Applying this „revised“ contestable market theory to the deregulated sectors in Germany, natural monopolies can be identified in telecommunication sections local loops and local/regional connection networks, in the national electricity grid and the regional/local electricity distribution networks, in the national and regional/local gas transmission/distribution sections, and in the railroad network. These sections are not contestable due to sunk costs, expected high entry lags and a probably short price adjustment lag. They are identified as bottlenecks, which should be regulated. The function of system operators in energy and railroad are closely related to the non-contestable monopolistic networks.
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The Asian and the Russian financial crises: Propagation effects and policy responses in Central Europe's transition economies
Lucjan T. Orlowski
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 104,
1999
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The "German Model" in Decline
Jens Hölscher, Johannes Stephan
East Germany’s Economic Development since Unification,
1998
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Emigration tendencies into the surrounding areas of East German cities: The examples of Halle and Leipzig
Peter Franz
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 11,
1995
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In Ostdeutschland haben Suburbanisierungsprozesse eingesetzt, die auch in der Region Halle-Leipzig von einer wachsenden Dynamik gekennzeichnet sind. Bei weiter zunehmender Abwanderung ins Umland sind vermehrt Verkehrsprobleme, zunehmende soziale Segregation in den Großsiedlungen sowie politische Konflikte zwischen Kernstadt und Umlandgemeinden zu erwarten.
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Tendenzen bei Südkoreas FuE-Aktivitäten: Umsetzungsprobleme trotz wachsender Bemühungen
Ralf Müller
External Publications,
1998
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