The COVID-19 pandemic has massively impacted the health of many people worldwide and poses significant challenges for our social, economic, and political life. Global vaccination should help the world overcome the pandemic and return to a "normal" life. In Germany, the Federal Ministry of Health...

Can competition law also take into account effects on privacy or should privacy concerns of data-collecting behaviour only be dealt with by data protection law? In this paper we are analysing the German Facebook case, in which certain terms of service (that force consumers to give consent for...

In this paper I develop a structural model of platform demand in two-sided markets and use it to estimate platform market power and predict price changes in post-merger markets. My model and estimation procedure are applicable to settings where (1) agents on each side care about the presence of...