The essays collected in this volume discuss the life and work of the Freiburg economist Leonhard Miksch with a special focus on his contributions to the ordoliberal approach to monetary and competition policy. Furthermore this volume contains reprints of some of Miksch's articles as well as a...

"This paper discusses free immigration to regulated labour markets (as in Europe) and to unregulated labour markets (as in the US), and explores the implications for migration flows of collective agreements, employment protection laws, product market regulations etc. It is argued that the...

Although a lot has been philosophised about the relationship between competition and freedom, especially in the Freiburg School of Economics, there is still no universal or generally accepted definition of so-called free competition. The article attempts to find such a definition based on the...

"This paper examines whether differences in wage rigidity across sectors can be explained by differences in workforce composition, wage-bargaining institutions, technology and competition. We rely on a large administrative matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium over the period 1990 -...

A regression analysis has shown that, due to watered-down competition, prices of single-day ski passes are higher by up to 18 percent in regions covered by ski networks than they would be in an independent region. Networking similarly weakens competition when it comes to multi-day passes....

Die vorliegende Untersuchung analysiert umfassend die unternehmensnahen Dienstleistungen im Freistaat Sachsen. Der Dienstleistungssektor hat in den letzten Jahren einen merklichen Aufschwung erlebt. Dies liegt vorallem an der gestiegenene Nachfrage, wobei die öffentliche Hand eine wichtige...

This study was commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate General "Enterprise and Industry" and was completed at the end of 2005. The objective was to investigate the impact of the accession of new member states on the intra-European division of labour and on global competitiveness in...

Die Studie ist eine überarbeitete Fassung der " Untersuchung einer verbesserten Konzentrationserfassung"und befaßt sich mit der Aufbereitung von Daten der amtlichen Statistik zur Unternehmenskonzentration. Ziele der Studie sind, die empirische Aussagefähigkeit der amtlichen Unternehmens- und...

Wachstumstreiber Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien: Moderne Kommunikationstechnologien sind für Industrienationen wie Deutschland bedeutende Handels- und Produktionsfaktoren. Deutschland hat ein großes Potenzial, mehr wirtschaftliches Wachstum durch eine stärkere Nutzung von...