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’
Zhentang Zhang (WZB Berlin)
Damien Neven (Université de Lausanne) and
Lars-Hendrik Röller (WZB Berlin)

‘Workers’ Skills, Product Quality, and Industry Equilibrium’
Jean Jaskold Gabszewicz (Université Catholique de Louvain) and
Alessandro Turrini (Université Catholique de Louvain)

‘Market Size and Vertical Disintegration: Stigler’s hypothesis reconsidered’
Walter Elberfeld (Universität Köln)

‘The Demand for Heterogeneous Labour in Germany’
Martin Falk (ZEW Mannheim) and
Bertrand Köbel (Universität Magdeburg)                                

‘Wages and Productivity Growth in a Competitive Industry’
Emmanuel Petrakis (University of Cyprus) and
Helmut Bester (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

‘Agency Costs, Firm Behavior, and the Nature of Competition’
Philippe Aghion (University College London)
Mathias Dewatripont (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and
Patrick Rey (Unversité de Toulouse I)

‘Investment, Fundamentals and Finance’
Simon Gilchrist (Boston University) and
Charles Himmelberg (Columbia University)

‘Is the Growth of Small Firms Constrained by Internal Finance?’
Bruce Petersen (Washington University) and
Robert Carpenter (Emory University)

‘Do Banks Crowd in or out Business Ethics? An Indirect Evolutionary Analysis’
Werner Güth (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

‘Allowing for Risk Choices in Diamond’s “Financial Intermediation as Delegated Monitoring”’
Martin Hellwig (Universität Mannheim)

‘Lending Relationships and the Pursuit of Innovation - Evidence on the Financing of Small and Medium-Sized Firms in Germany’
Dietmar Harhoff (ZEW Mannheim and WZB Berlin) and
Timm Körting (ZEW Mannheim)                               

‘Bank-Firm Relationships and Competitiveness’
Horst Albach (WZB Berlin)

‘Investment Banking Costs as a Measure of Access to External Finance’
Charles Himmelberg (Columbia University) and
Charles Calomiris (Columbia University)

‘Does Firms’ Financial Status Affect Plant Level Investment and Exit Decisions?’
Joachim Winter (Universität Mannheim)