This paper explores the effects that collusion can have in newspaper markets where firms compete for advertising as well as for readership. We compare three modes of competition: i) competition in the advertising and the reader market, ii) semi-collusion over advertising (with competition in the...

This paper summarizes the peculiarities of online markets and discusses recent antitrust cases related to online markets. Following a brief description of the online markets' characteristics and potential tendencies for concentration the paper first discusses the antitrust allegations and...

We re-examine the view that a ban on price discrimination in input markets is particularly desirable in the presence of buyer power. This argument crucially depends on an inverse relationship between downstream firms' profits and the uniform input price. Assuming different input efficiencies...

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...

Many cartels are formed by individual managers of different firms, but not by firms as collectives. However, most of the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals' incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms,...

Traditional economic theory of collusion assumed that cartels are inherently unstable, and yet some manage to operate for years or even decades. While the literature has presented several determinants of cartel stability, the vast majority focuses on firms as entities, even though cartels are...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Teil I. Staatliche Prozesssteuerung versus Ordnungsgestaltung in der Marktwirtschaft -- Ordnungstheorie versus Institutionenökonomik: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten / Leschke, Martin / Thieme, H. Jörg -- Central Banks - from Overburdening to Decline? /...

Intro -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Teil I. Staatliche Prozesssteuerung versus Ordnungsgestaltung in der Marktwirtschaft -- Ordnungstheorie versus Institutionenökonomik: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten -- Central Banks - from Overburdening to Decline? -- Politische Ökonomie der Energiewende:...