July 2000

On the Role of Competition in Higher Education - Uses and Abuses of the Economic Metaphor
Egon P. Franck/Bruno Schönfelder

R&D Spillovers, Technological Proximity, and Productivity Growth - Evidence from German Panel Data
Dietmar Harhoff

Consumption-Based Tax Systems and Investment Neutrality: Does the Corporation Income Tax Depreciation Method Impact Investment Capital Value?
Michael Heinhold/Silke Hüsing/Helmut Pasch

Credit and Information in Universal Banking
Hans-Peter Burghof

Book Review
Hierarchies in Distributed Decision Making
Schneeweiss, Christoph