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...

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?

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...

Lead jurisdiction models represent one option how to extend and enhance contemporary interagency cooperation among competition policy regimes. They constitute a multilateral, case-related form of cooperation that is suited to effectively create a one-stop-shop for the prosecution of...

The competition rules and policy framework of the European Union represents an important institutional restriction for doing sports business. Driven by the courts, the 2007 overhaul of the approach and methodology has increased the scope of competition policy towards sports associations and...

The paper discussed the economic theory of international antitrust institutions. Economic theory shows that non-coordinated competition policies of regimes that are territorially smaller than the international markets on which business companies compete violate cross-border allocative efficiency...