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...

Im Mai 2011 stellt Deutschland als eines der letzten EU-Länder gegenüber den acht im Jahre 2004 beigetretenen ost- und mitteleuropäischen EU-Ländern die volle Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit her. Es ist von hohem Interesse, welche Migrationswirkungen der damit verbundene Verlust von...