Seit Mitte der 90er Jahre werden Frequenzauktionen durchgeführt. In Europa fand die erste Frequenzauktion in Deutschland statt. Dies war die ERMES-Auktion im Jahre 1996. Andere Länder in Europa, unter anderen Dänemark, Großbritannien, Österreich, die Niederlande, Schweden und die Schweiz...

While other parts of the new institutional economics (e. g. principal agent theory,transaction cost theory) have already been applied to co-operative researchwith some success, property rights theory has as yet been only rarelyused in this regard. At the same time, the traditional structure of...

This paper discusses whether, in which respects, and to what extent the corporate governancesystems of Germany, the United Kingdom and France have already converged in the course ofEuropean economic integration, or are likely to converge in the foreseeable future. Wepresent, and attempt to...

Japan witnessed a boom of municipal mergers between 1999 and 2006. Duringthat period, the number of municipalities was reduced from 3,232 to 1,820. TheGreat Mergers of the Heisei Period, as they have become known, took place withina framework of extensive decentralization reforms in which the...

Dur country should seriously consider the fact that byprioritizing economic development, it has accorded insuffieientattention to such essential goals as the improvementof the livelihoods of our individual eitizens, thewealth of the human spirit, and soeial justice ... In responseto demands for...

Die Beendigung der Gesellschafterstellung in der GmbH kann durch verschiedeneRechtsinstitute erfolgen. Eines der vorrangigen Instrumentarien bildet dieEinziehung des Geschäftsanteils eines Gesellschafters gemäß § 34 GmbHG1.Es handelt sich bei der Einziehung um die Vernichtung eines...

The background to the Report is the public policy debate about the introduction of a Bill of Rights or written constitution that would build on the Human Rights Act (HRA) (1998) and further strengthen human rights protection by codifying new, additional and / or strengthened rights including...

The findings set out in this Report challenge the perception of low population support for rights overall - and the view that the public think rights are a “charter” for criminals and terrorists. They support the reasoning of the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) that economic and...

We apply the property rights theory of Grossman-Hart-Moore in the musicindustry and study the optimal allocation of copyright between the artistswho create music and the labels who promote and distribute it. Digital tech-nology opens up a role for new intermediaries. We …nd that entry of...