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Electronic Publishing at Humboldt University Berlin - Concepts, Tools and Services

Originally established to merely publish electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) as well as postdoctoral theses, the edoc server at Humboldt University Berlin (http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/) has become the service platform for scholarly publications of all types. It is an integral part of the university’s information infrastructure which also contains a teaching management system, a virtual libr...

Minor psychiatric disorders among nurses university faculties.

This cross-sectional study addresses 130 nursing faculty members in federal universities from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It investigated the psychological demands and decision latitude (the Demand-Control Model by Karasek) and their association with Minor Psychological Disorders (MPDs). The Brazilian versions of the Self-Report-Questionnaire-20 and the Job Stress Scale were used. MPDs were prev...

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Faculties of Arts , Economics , Education , Engineering and Science MATH 3917 Hamiltonian

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Für Sozialforschung Social Science Research Center Berlin

Buyers’ Alliances for Bargaining Power by Suchan Chae and Paul Heidhues We provide a novel explanation as to why forming an alliance of buyers (or sellers) across separate markets can be advantageous when input prices are determined by bargaining. Our explanation helps to understand the prevalence of buyer cooperatives among small and medium sized firms.

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Für Sozialforschung Social Science Research Center Berlin

Product Market Competition and Lobbying Coordination in the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry* by Astrid Jung and Tomaso Duso This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms’ lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying coordination. Applying ...