Comparative advertising is a daily phenomenon in the modern landscape of commercial communication. Interestingly, however, a deep dichotomy exists between the American legal doctrine on comparative advertising and its European counterpart. Whereas American lawyers have cultivated a rather...

Regarding trademarks, the EU and US regulate comparative advertising differently. One particular matter of significant difference is whether or not competitors are allowed to say they offer an imitation or replica of a trademarked product. In the US, competitors may claim equality of their...

Wettbewerbspolitisch stellt sich die Frage, ob im 5er-Oligopol mit Aral, Shell, Esso, Total und Jet Binnenwettbewerb fehlt und ob dieses Oligopol wirksam Außenseiterwettbewerb ausgesetzt ist. Nach neuartigen Daten für vier Metropolen aus 2014, die auf die Marktransparenzstelle zurückgehen,...

Recent healthcare reforms have sought to increase efficiency by introducing managed care (MC) as an alternative to conventional care. This article proposes an institutional change designed to let German consumers choose between the two settings through directing payments from the Federal Health...

In contrast to the United States, Germany decided to add margin squeeze as a legal offense to German competition law. In response to this, the problems in the gasoline market have caused major debates. This paper examines the pricing strategies by gasoline retailers and discusses the...

Do we have effective competition between the gasoline's big five oligopolists (Aral, Shell, Esso, Total and Jet) and fringe gasoline stations? Using 2014 Market Transparency price data from 66 cities with populations between 60,000 and 100,000, we analyze which brands lead price increases, the...

Ende Februar 2017 hat der Bundesgerichtshof Bausparkassen, die Bausparern mit vertraglich zugesicherten hohen Einlagenzinsen aus Altverträgen vorfristig gekündigt haben, Recht gegeben. Der Autor stellt die Funktionsweise des Bausparens dar. In der aktuellen Niedrigzinsphase könnte es dazu...

The EU electricity directive (96/92/EC) established the right of the member states to choose between Regulated and Negotiated Third Party Access (RTPA and NTPA). The interest group theory is able to explain whether the introduction of NTPA in Germany had been an interest group equilibrium under...

Die Befragung Lüneburger Handwerksbetriebe, die im Rahmen eines Projektes zur Regulierung auf dem deutschen Handwerksmarkt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kreishandwerkerschaft Lüneburg durchgeführt wurde, soll Auswirkungen der Anfang 2004 erfolgten Handwerksreform erfassen. Dabei liegt der...