Abstract: Verstöße gegen Vorschriften des Wettbewerbsrechts gehen regelmäßig mit einer Schädigung vor- oder nachgelagerter Wirtschaftsstufen einher. Die Urteile ‚Courage’ und ‚Manfredi’, intensive Bemühungen der EU-Kommission, die Rahmenbedingungen für die private Durchsetzung...

We study a production-based present-value relation that implies that fluctuations in the marginal profit-to-marginal Q ratio (mq) are driven by variations in the expected growth of marginal profits (cash-flow channel), expected investment return changes (discount-rate channel), or both. We find...

The Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission in 2010, which has an information-based sentencing information system, added two items of information to its Web-based Automated Sentencing Information feature: (1) the cost of each sentencing option and (2) the recidivism rate for offenders – with...