In diesem Beitrag werden die potenziellen Vorteile beleuchtet, die sich durch die Digitalisierung auf den Märkten für urbane Mobilität Verbrauchern und neuen Anbietern bei einer adäquaten Regulierung eröffnen. Zunächst führt der Markteintritt neuer Mobilitätsanbieter ganz grundsätzlich...

Katz (1987), DeGraba (1990), and Yoshida (2000) have formulated theories that price discrimination bans in intermediary goods markets tend to have positive effects on allocative, dynamic and productive efficiency, respectively. We show that none of these results is robust vis-à-vis endogenous...

This paper analyses the extent of inter-format retail competition between supermarkets, discounters and drugstores in Germany, using data from the German market for diapers. We estimate a random coefficient logit model at the individual household level. Based on consumer substitution patterns,...

This paper develops the hypothesis that the inclusion of multiple objectives into laws widens the discretionary powers of executive institutions. As the decision how to balance trade-offs is removed from the political to the executive sphere, policy making becomes less transparent and also less...