Although Russia’s WTO-accession is foreseeable, there are still deficits in the literature on its concrete effects on the sectoral and regional levels. In this paper we analyse effects on Russia’s chemical and petrochemical sectors (CPS), which are, unlike for example its oil and mineral gas...

Although Russia's WTO-accession is foreseeable, there are still deficits in the literature on its concrete effects on the sectoral and regional levels. In this paper we analyze effects on Russia's chemical and petrochemical sectors (CPS), which are, unlike for example its oil and mineral gas...

The paper gives a brief overview of probable further developments of the EU-ETS. At first, we discuss scenarios for the auspices of the Post-Kyoto-Regime providing a general framework of the EU-ETS in the period after 2012. We find that Europe is likely to still have an ambitious CO2-regime...

Markets for pharmaceuticals belong to the most intensly regulated markets. Manufacturers of pharmaceutical products frequently argue that regulatory interventions impede innovative activities. In this paper we scrutinize two important changes of the regulatory framework of the market for...

Pharmacies are the main distributors for pharmaceutical products in Germany. Due to the legal framework there is little price competition in this segment. With the liberalisation of the market and the entry of Internet pharmacies we expect considerable price effects. But an accompanying...

Im Jahre 2004 werden im Rahmen der Osterweiterung bis zu zehn neue Länder in die Europäische Union aufgenommen. Inwieweit wird das EU-Budget durch diese Beitritte belastet? Wo können solche Belastungen auftreten?

Rules possess an important influence on rational individual behaviour. In economic analyses, two different types of rules occur that both induce rule-following behaviour, however, they are rarely distinguished. The differentiation of interpersonal rules (institutions as collective rules) and...

Advances in competition economics as well as in computational and empirical methods have offered the scope for the employment of merger simulation models in merger control procedures during the past almost 15 years. Merger simulation is, nevertheless, still a very young and innovative instrument...