generating facilities-based competition in Germany is the cable-broadcasting network. The current developments in the cable …, there is a need for unbundling regulation to foster competition. Improvements to the current open-network regulation …This paper gives a survey of the current state of competition in the German Broadband access market. Existing …

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a … repeating ARGARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject …, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific regulation. While standard event study approaches are a special …

We provide an empirical assessment of the German interurban bus industry two years after its deregulation in January …

market regulation have motivated this quality improvement. In particular we show that this rise in quality is only profitable …

comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …

for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R … Investitionsverhalten nicht eindeutig. In dieser Studie analysieren wir empirisch, wie Wettbewerb und Unternehmensgröße einen möglichen …

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product … substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …

electricity companies and transnational competition, Chile and Brazil have only partially liberalized their electricity sector …, enacting regulation to ensure household consumer protection and security of supply. …