Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two …

answers and can be used to estimate market power and pass through rates. I show that even a naive one-sided model that ignores …

bargaining theory to predict inter-institutional agreements in the Conciliation Committee, it turns out that although …

firms can invest in increasing the demand from online shoppers, the ban may have adverse effects on investment and social …

The paper develops a unified general equilibrium model including savings with overlapping generations, investment and … unemployment compensation. As a separate methodological contribution, we extend a dynamic CGE model for Germany to allow for search …

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of … America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have … strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we put this trade policy initiative in its broader perspective. We argue …