This paper is a comment on the analysis of the German security industry by Stuchtey and Skrzypietz (2014). The comment focuses on two issues. Firstly, it argues that it is advantageous for the research agenda of the authors to conceptualize security as a human need and not as an economic good....

We review the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office Germany) decision on the proposed merger between Springer and ProSiebenSat.1 from an economic point of view. In doing so, it is not our goal to analyse whether the controversial decision by the Bundeskar-tellamt has been correct or flawed...

"Financial Regulation and International Competitiveness: The Case of the German Bundesliga": The paper discusses the intensively discussed problem of financial crisis, overburdening debts and insolvencies in professional European football. The academic literature identifies several special...

We try to better understand possible reasons for deviations between statistically-measured competitive balance (CB) and perceived CB. Moreover, we suggest answers to the following questions: are there specific dimensions of CB that are perceived to be significantly less balanced in the Danish...

Klappentext: In diesem Band wurden Beiträge von Autoren zusammengestellt, die Prof. Dr. Udo Müller im Laufe seines wissenschaftlichen Werdeganges begleitet haben. Entsprechend der großen Bandbreite seiner Interessen und Tätigkeitsbereiche in Forschung und Lehre umfasst dieses Buch ein...

This chapter discusses the independence of competition authorities and addresses the question whether an independent European competition authority would perform a better competition policy than the competition office of the European Commission, which is not independent but, instead, integral...

The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever increasing and poses challenges to the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to...