Roughly during the last decade, European Competition Policy has undergone a series of fundamental changes. All four areas - cartel policy, merger policy, abuse control, and state aid control - have been subject to a modernization process, which led to a focus on analysing the effects of...

Roughly during the last decade, European Competition Policy has undergone a series of fundamental changes. All four areas – cartel policy, merger policy, abuse control, and state aid control – have been subject to a modernization process, which led to a focus on analyzing the effects of...

Klappentext: In diesem Band wurden Beiträge von Autoren zusammengestellt, die Prof. Dr. Udo Müller im Laufe seines wissenschaftlichen Werdeganges begleitet haben. Entsprechend der großen Bandbreite seiner Interessen und Tätigkeitsbereiche in Forschung und Lehre umfasst dieses Buch ein...

In this paper, we investigate individuals’ investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort experiment in which we permit individuals to learn and potentially improve their relative position...