This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios or markups for 50 sectors in 8 euro area countries and the US over the period 1981-2004. The estimates are obtained applying the methodology developed by Roeger (1995) on the EU KLEMS March 2007 database. Five stylized facts are...

With the Commission's Decisions in Lundbeck, Johnson & Johnson and Servier, reverse payments in the pharmaceutical sector have recently come into EU Competition Policy's focus. On the other side of the Atlantic, instead, the decennial jurisprudential debate seems to have arrived at a turning...

Im Zuge der Finanzkrise haben Ratingagenturen die Bonität einiger europäischer Staaten vermehrt abgewertet, wodurch sich das wirtschaftliche Umfeld der in diesen Ländern tätigen Unternehmen gewandelt hat und die betroffenen Aktienmärkte Verluste verzeichneten. Aus diesem Grund ist in...

We use a novel disaggregate sectoral euro area data set with a regional breakdown to investigate price changes and suggest a new method to extract factors from over-lapping data blocks. This allows us to separately estimate aggregate, sectoral, country-specific and regional components of price...