Information and communication technologies are transforming economies and societies around the world. In this respect, E-Commerce has the capability to build a new global economy. That is why government, industries, non-profit-organisations, trade unions and consumers would like to come together...

Over the past two decades, the financial services industry has experienced a significant increase in competition and internal rivalry. Driven by deregulation and advances in information technologies, many historical institutional distinctions among financial intermediaries have disappeared or...

[...]In dem Diskussionspapier geht es um die Frage, ob die Empfehlung den nationalen Regulierungsbehörden genügend Freiraum einräumt, nationale Besonderheiten in ihren Marktanalysen zu berücksichtigen. Im Rahmen dieses Diskussionsbeitrages wird zu-nächst kurz die Relevante-Markt-Empfehlung...

The travel of small facts (such as data) across geographicallocations and disciplines is increasingly regulated by the private andpublic sponsors of digital databases. My analysis focuses on thecontrast between the strategies supported by the public and privatesectors in governing bioinformatic...

Die Internetökonomie, definiert als eine im Wesentlichen digital basierte und elektronischgesteuerte Ökonomie, welche die computerbasierte Vernetzung nutzt, um Kommunikation,Interaktion und Transaktion in einem globalen Rahmen zu ermöglichen, bringt neueUrsachen- und Wirkungszusammenhänge...

New public governance emphasizes less state, more market and more hierarchy as the cornerstones for effective steering of higher education institutions. Based on an explorative analysis of qualitative and quantitative data of fourteen German and European economics departments, we investigate the...