Maintaining sufficient levels of competition ranks among the core interests of any national – and increasingly international – antitrust policy; however, the formal proof that a cartel really functioned economically and did not only exist in a legal sense is hard to deliver: market power is...

Auf der Basis der Existenzgründungsstatistik des IfM Bonn wurde das gewerbliche Gründungsgeschehen im Dienstleistungssektor untersucht. Im Dienstleistungssektor fanden 2013 knapp drei Viertel aller Gründungen statt und damit weniger als 1998. Ursächlich dafür ist vor allem ein Anstieg der...

We study, what Switzerland can learn from the disappearance of the property insurance monopolies in Germany. We show that the German insurance monopolies did not fight hard enough to defend their interests. a) Most of them knew that they would be bought up by another public insurance company....

Auf der Basis der Existenzgründungsstatistik des IfM Bonn wurde das gewerbliche Gründungsgeschehen im Dienstleistungssektor untersucht. Im Dienstleistungssektor fanden 2013 knapp drei Viertel aller Gründungen statt und damit weniger als 1998. Ursächlich dafür ist vor allem ein Anstieg der...

We analyze the evolution of sectoral production per inhabitant in EU countries during the period 2000-2005 with special focus in the 6 more populated countries, but although with reference to other European countries. The main aim of the study is to analyze the evolution of industrial...

Maintaining sufficient levels of competition ranks among the core interests of any national – and increasingly international – antitrust policy; however, the formal proof that a cartel really functioned economically and did not only exist in a legal sense is hard to deliver: market power is...

We use a set of German micro data to study the relationship between mainstream and art house movie theaters. We find that both types of cinema have a significant price effect within their own group, but there is no significant price effect between the two types. Furthermore, we provide an...

This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin (1975) to capture observable survey respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss...

South Africa and Germany are both culturally rich countries with inner social struggles. Each country’s educational leaders aim to adapt to rapidly changing political, economic, and cultural environments, while at the same time preserving the inner beauty, as well as the nationalism that has,...

Corruption in sports represents an important challenge to their integrity. Corruption can take many forms, including match fixing by players, referees, or team officials. Match fixing can be difficult to detect. We use a unique data set to analyze variation in bet volume on Betfair, a major...