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...

What are the goals of the law against private restraints on competition: the protection of the individuals' freedom to compete or consumer welfare? Adrian Künzler deals with these and other questions and attempts to find answers from an epistemological, an economic, a legal and a philosophic...

Prepared for a conference on the significance of Erich Hoppmann's contribution to competition theory and policy, the articles collected in this volume discuss central issues of the role of competition policy in a free society, including in particular issues raised by the "more economic approach"...

Based on an earlier discussion of 32 problem areas of economic law (Kluwer Law International, 2004), Karl M. Meessen develops a theory of economic law under the competition-of-systems paradigm in order to take a fresh look at its various components. (Published in German.)

Es wurde untersucht, inwieweit sich Handelskooperationen in ihren Organisations- und Entscheidungsstrukturen an die Regelungen von Franchisesystemen anlehnen, um ihre Marktposition gegenüber den landesweit oder sogar transnational operierenden Filialsystemen des Einzelhandels behaupten zu...