This volume contains the papers and discussions of the 39th Ottobeuren Seminar on Economics dealing with the subject of "market power". The authors deal with numerous issues relevant to the market from a theoretical, empirical, political and legal perspective. This meeting of scholars from...

The essays collected in this volume discuss the life and work of the Freiburg economist Leonhard Miksch with a special focus on his contributions to the ordoliberal approach to monetary and competition policy. Furthermore this volume contains reprints of some of Miksch's articles as well as a...

This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive investment refers to the size of a firm's capital stock. Extensive...

This paper focuses on the legal monopoly for sporting bets in Germany. We analyze the pricing behavior of the monopolist ODDSET and find that typical pricing inefficiencies on betting markets are reinforced under the monopoly. This result in conjunction with the decreasing tax revenue may...

Das ifo Institut hat im Auftrag des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums untersucht, ob die vertikale Integration in den Bereichen Telekommunikation, Elektrizitäts- und Gasversorgung die Steuerungsfunktion des Wettbewerbs in bezug auf Preisbildung, Markteintritt neuer Unternehmen und Stimulierung des...

Der Bericht gibt einen Einblick in die betriebswirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen der Deregulierung von Märkten. Dabei konzentriert sich die Untersuchung auf die Unternehmensstrategien als Reaktion auf die Deregulierung des britischen Telekommunikationsmarktes. Zunächst wird die britische...

Die im Jahr 1989 durchgeführte Postreform I führte die Deutsche Bundespost zu mehr Selbständigkeit und Flexibilität. Eine zweite Reformphase, die noch in der jetzigen Legislaturperiode vollendet werden soll, werden Änderungen im Bereich des Briefdienstes beschlossen. Hierbei sind in einem...

"This paper examines the impact of minimum wage in a dominant firm model. It is shown that in a labor-intensive market, the introduction of a binding minimum wage creates an entry barrier in the short run and increases unemployment in the long run." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

"This paper examines the impact of minimum wage in a dominant firm model. It is shown that in a labor-intensive market, the introduction of a binding minimum wage creates an entry barrier in the short run and increases unemployment in the long run." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

This paper is concerned with the question of how to deal with Google Shopping’s position on online markets in order to prevent harm to public welfare. From the perspective of sellers and buyers of goods and services in Germany, Google can be seen as a gatekeeper to the Internet and thus as an...