[Einleitung ...] Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert exemplarisch anhand wichtiger Fälle, welchen Einfluss die europäische Wettbewerbspolitik auf die Entstehung und Entwicklung europäischer Medienmärkte nimmt (Abschnitt 3).3 Vorweg sind allerdings ein paar grundsätzliche Bemerkungen zu...

This paper provides a comparative analysis of methods for the empirical ex post evaluation of merger control decisions. It develops a competition-policy oriented framework of assessment criteria for the leading evaluation methods and applies them to structural modeling and simulation,...

Naturally, competition policy is based on competition economics made applicable in terms of law and its enforcement. Within the different branches of competition economics, modern industrial economics, or more precisely gametheoretic oligopoly theory, has become the dominating paradigm both in...