Developments in information technology are fundamentally changing many traditional business models. Progress in the IT area is bringing about one change in particular: it is reducing search costs and allowing buyers and sellers of products and services to find each other directly on web-based...

Die Entwicklung in der Informationstechnologie verändert viele traditionelle Geschäftsmodelle grundlegend. Der IT-Fortschritt bewirkt vor allem eines: Er reduziert die Suchkosten, sodass sich Anbieter und Nachfrager von Dienstleistungen und Produkten nunmehr unmittelbar ohne Zwischenschaltung...

The financial crisis has revealed fatal institutional and structural deficits at the finance market. Politics has reacted to the financial crisis with a sea of legal bills and regulations. But all regulating efforts are merely system-imminent reparation measures and do not solve the core...

The current focus of financial policy measures in nearly all G20 countries is to rescue commercial banks by running high bail-out programs. If banks can be bailed-out, or rescued from their present plight, everything will be getting better - that is, by large, the self-proclaimed belief, or...