Das Pay-TV ist eine Angebotsform des Fernsehens, die Ökonomen a priori positiv betrachten, weil sie auf der Basis des üblichen marktwirtschaftlichen Preismechanismus funktioniert, das grundsätzlich das Angebot nach der Nachfrage und damit nach den Präferenzen der Zuschauer steuert. Die...

This paper deals with EU-Directive 89/552/EEC "Television Without Frontiers", which enables each EU-country to set up a list of major events that are not allowed to be transmitted in Pay-TV. We analyze this kind of regulation using instruments of game-theory and monopoly-theory. We compare the...

Access to a platform's services often requires consumers to use a complementary hardware product or service, e.g., Internet service is needed to access the YouTube platform. Typically, such access products are provided by third-party firms. More recently, however, some major platforms like...