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Industrial Structure and Input Markets A joint CEPR/DFG/ZEW
conference on ‘Industrial Structure and Input Markets’ was held in
Mannheim on 21/23 May 1998. The conference focused on the
interrelationships between output market structures and input market
imperfections. The papers were organized around three broad themes:
industrial structure and financial markets; industrial structure and
labour markets; and industrial structure and other input markets. The
conference organizers were Hans
Juergen Ramser (Universitat Konstanz) and Konrad Stahl (Universität Mannheim). The
following papers were presented: ‘Union
Power and Product-Market Competition: Evidence from the Airline
Industry’ ‘Workers’
Skills, Product Quality, and Industry Equilibrium’ ‘Market
Size and Vertical Disintegration: Stigler’s hypothesis reconsidered’ ‘The
Demand for Heterogeneous Labour in Germany’ ‘Wages
and Productivity Growth in a Competitive Industry’ ‘Agency
Costs, Firm Behavior, and the Nature of Competition’ ‘Investment,
Fundamentals and Finance’ ‘Is
the Growth of Small Firms Constrained by Internal Finance?’ ‘Do
Banks Crowd in or out Business Ethics? An Indirect Evolutionary
Analysis’ ‘Allowing
for Risk Choices in Diamond’s “Financial Intermediation as Delegated
Monitoring”’ ‘Lending
Relationships and the Pursuit of Innovation - Evidence on the Financing
of Small and Medium-Sized Firms in Germany’ ‘Bank-Firm
Relationships and Competitiveness’ ‘Investment
Banking Costs as a Measure of Access to External Finance’ ‘Does
Firms’ Financial Status Affect Plant Level Investment and Exit
Decisions?’ |
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