In the international health care literature there is a broad discussion on impactsof competition in health care markets. But aspects of standardization in regionalhealth care markets with no price competition received comparatively little attention.We use a typical Hotelling-framework (reference...

There are numerous studies analyzing factors of success in media-broadcasted artistic contests, especially music competitions. However, one factor that is generally neglected in the literature is the quality of the artistic performances (i.e. "music quality"). In this paper, we approach this...

This paper outlines the modern industrial organization theory of media markets including competition policy implications. After recapturing fundamentals of industrial organization theory in a non-technical way, the state of the art of (i) modern platform economics, (ii) the economics of the...

[Einleitung und Motivation] Mit dem erstmaligen Erscheinen der Geschichten um "Die drei ???" im Jahre 1979 als Hörspiel hat in Deutschland eine kommerzielle Erfolgsgeschichte begonnen die seit nunmehr 40 Jahren anhält. Bei den "Die drei ???" handelt es sich inhaltlich um Kriminalgeschichten....

Die Theorie mehrseitiger Marktplätze hat sich seit den ersten Arbeiten von Rochet/Tirole (2003), Evans (2003) und Evans/Schmalensee (2007) und ihrer Übertragung auf Medienmärkte durch Dewenter (2006) und Dewenter/Haucap (2009) zur Analyse von Plattformmärkten im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs...

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI...