Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Die Ökonomik von Sport, Entertainment und Medien – ein Thema für das Forschungsseminar Radein? -- Teil I: Sportmärkte -- Zur Vergabe der Medienrechte in der Fußball-Bundesliga -- Ökonomische Fragen der Talentförderung im Fußball: Theorie, Praxis und empirische...

This paper explores the anticompetitive effects that wage determination between an employers’ association and the industry’s labor union may have when wages are generally binding. It is shown that employers’ associations can, under certain circumstances, use generally binding standard...

In the literature on international trade, very little attention has been given to informational asymmetries between firms and consumers with respect to product quality. The few economic models that analyze the question of how asymmetric information about product quality might affect trade flows...