Marktmachtausübung und Stand der Forschung zum Thema Marktmacht und Marktmachtmessung -- Einführung in den deutschen Strommarkt -- Bestimmung des relevanten Marktes und kontinentaleuropäisches Außenhandelsregime -- Strukturelle Indikatoren für Marktmacht -- Quantifizierung von Marktmacht am...

Theoretischer Hintergrund: Organisations- und Entscheidungstheorien als Grundlage zur Analyse von Wirtschaftsunternehmen -- Die Hypothekenbanken im Gefüge der deutschen Kreditwirtschaft: Terminologie, Funktionsweise und Institution -- Überblick zur Entwicklung des modernen Realkreditwesens --...

Der Konzentrationsprozess im deutschen Sortimentsbuchhandel schreitet seit Jahren unaufhaltsam voran. Rahmenbedingungen wie die Digitalisierung, technische Innovationen und das Konsumentenverhalten beeinflussen dies zusätzlich. Kerstin Emrich untersucht die Ursachen und Auswirkungen dieses...

Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and...

The book covers both the analysis of the major producer of civil aircraft (EADS/Airbus) located in the region and its relation with the cluster of enterprises within those regions. It studies the organization of production, the creation of knowledge within the industry, the concentration and...

The Influence of Industry Concentration on Merger Motives -- Corporate Relatedness and Wealth Creation in Machinery Mergers -- Horizontal acquisitions, merger rents, and non-price competition - a case study from the machinery industry -- Concluding remarks

In light of the 20th anniversary of the ruling in Francovich, Michael Haba analyzes the principle of Member State Liability, which provides a right to damages whenever EU law is breached by Member States. His research ascertains that the doctrine evolved through three stages before becoming the...

In order to measure the dynamics of flow-performance relationships for a multi-domicile sample, Simon Weiler applies existing flow-performance research methods to a broad set of European equity (UCITS) funds and proves that major findings (performance-chasing behaviour and a convex...

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This report transfers the Ecological Scarcity Method (ESM) to the EU and its 28 member states. It provides a powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments in enterprises and surveys the current impacts and the targets published...

Chapter 1: European Union between the Big Bang and the Big Crunch -- Chapter 2: The Single European Market - challenges for doing business -- chapter 3: European Union Trade Policy -- Chapter 4: European Cohesion Policy.- Chapter 5: The relationship between EU competition and innovation in the...