Die Wissensgesellschaft ist inzwischen Realität. Wettbewerbsvorteile und hohe Wertschöpfung werden über Vorsprünge in Wissen und dessen Anwendung erreicht. Reiche Regionen existieren dort, wo innovative Cluster bestehen. Technologietransfer entstand aus der Notwendigkeit, an Hochschulen und...

Das Raumordnungsverfahren für die Netzanbindung des Ostseewindparks "Beta Baltic" wurde im Jahr 2011 durchgeführt. Im Ergebnis des Verfahrens wurde eine Vorzugstrasse für die Kabelverbindung vom geplanten Windpark vor der Insel Fehmarn zum Umspannwerk Bentwisch bei Rostock festgelegt. Der...

We present and estimate a model of competition in a two-sided market: the market for magazine readership and advertising. Using data on magazines in Germany, we find evidence that magazines have properties of two-sided markets. The results are consistent with the perception that prices for...

We analyze the relationship between website visits, magazine demand and the demand for advertising pages using Granger non-causality tests on the ba- sis of an extensive and externally audited quarterly data set for the German magazine market spanning the period I/1998 to II/2004. We use...

What happens to demand if a magazine launches a website? This question is empirically analyzed for the German women?s magazine market, a particularly large segment of the German magazine where fierce competition is reigning. Models for differentiated product demand are estimated on panel data...

I derive and estimate a model for cover price setting in print media markets where actors are faced by two interrelated demand curves: the demand for the print medium and the demand for advertising space. Publicly available data on German women?s magazines observed between 1998 and 2001 are used...

Open Access Journals have become more and more popular as a publishing model for academic scholars. There are already more than 3,500 of them listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). To establish these journals as a relevant and trustful source for validated research results (and...