This paper analyses the quality provision of interrelated market firms under different market structures both theoretically and empirically. A theoretical model is built, where a media firm offers newspapers in a primary market and advertising space in the secondary market. Furthermore, the...

Nicht erst seit der geplanten Fusion zwischen den beiden Medienkonzernen, der ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG und der Axel Springer AG im Jahr 2005, wird in Deutschland aber auch in anderen Ländern, wie der USA, Großbri-tannien und Australien eine rege Diskussion darüber geführt, wie crossme-diale...

This paper explores the effects that collusion can have in newspaper markets where firms compete for advertising as well as for readership. We compare three modes of competition: i) competition in the advertising and the reader market, ii) semi-collusion over advertising (with competition in the...