The severity and depth of the recent financial crisis hit many by surprise. Despite warning signs, the financial system seems to have been unable to aggregate existing information. As the events of Fall 2008 showed, many investors were caught off guard by the large number of banks collapsing...

Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...

Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that entrants can make profits after investing in infrastructure so...

Airbnb und Uber schaffen mit ihren Geschäftsmodellen neue Märkte. Werden dadurch Ressourcen besser genutzt, oder werden soziale Standards und gesetzliche Regulierungen umgangen? Nach Meinung von Tim Brühn und Georg Götz, Universität Gießen, bilden sich im Ergebnis Unternehmen mit hohen...