In a world with multinational companies (MNC's) changes such as those implied by the realization of EC's internal market will affect the locational choice made by geographically mobile MNC's. The reason is that the reduction of trade barriers within the EC puts non-EC members at a competitive...

The purpose of this report is to contribute to the analysis of two questions. Should a merger control system take into account efficiency gains from horizontal mergers, and balance these gains against the anti-competitive effects of mergers? If so, how should a system be designed to account for...

In dieser IW-Analyse geht es um die positiven Wohlfahrtseffekte der EU-Integration, die am Beispiel der langfristigen Auswirkungen eines Brexits illustriert werden. Dazu werden wesentliche Studien zu den Auswirkungen eines Brexits kategorisiert und kurz vorgestellt. Die bis Anfang April 2016...