As of 7 March 2024, the EU Commission began to enforce its controversial Digital Markets Act (DMA). This article sheds light on the recent debate. It lists the dos and don'ts of the DMA as well as stakeholder reactions to them before tracing some of the underlying motivations and reasoning that...

Der Bundesminister für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU) hat im November 1991 einen ersten Entwurf für eine Verordnung zur Förderung von Getränkemehrwegsystemen vorgelegt; offen ist, ob dieser Entwurf, wie ursprünglich vorgesehen, im Jahre 1997 in Kraft gesetzt wird. Dieser...

Using a sample of 96 mergers notified to the EU Commission and logit regression techniques, we analyse the Commission's decision process. We find that the probability of a phase 2 investigation and of a prohibition of the merger increases with the parties' market shares. The probability...

This paper examines the interaction between intellectual property protection and competition policy on the choice of entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property protection makes it more likely that entrepreneurs...