This papers analyses how horizontal mergers affect innovation activities of the merged entity and its non-merging competitors. We develop an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to derive empirically testable implications. Our model predicts that a merger is more likely to be profitable in...

Given various recent antitrust investigations on the retail sector, we deal with uncovering demand systems substitution patterns for a particular market (diapers) to investigate the inter-format competition (supermarkets vs. discounters vs. drugstores). Using the uncovered demand system we...

We analyze the behavior of 577 economics and law students in a simple binary trust experiment in class-room. While economists are both significantly less trusting and less trustworthy than law students, this difference is largely due to heterogeneity between female law and economics students....

Diese Studie beleuchtet das Thema Cloud Computing aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln. Primär wird dabei eine ökonomische Analyse der Vor- und Nachteile des Cloud Computing für Unternehmen durchgeführt. Im Sinne des Optimierungsansatzes soll der größtmögliche Nutzen bei kleinstmöglichen...