In dieser Festschrift für Wolfgang Kerber würdigen Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Wegbegleiter und ehemalige Schüler sein wissenschaftliches Werk und Wirken in den Bereichen Wettbewerbspolitik, Rechtsökonomik sowie weiteren Teilbereichen der Wirtschaftspolitik. Zeitgemäß bilden Beiträge zu...

The digitalisation of the economy with data as the new critical resource is a technological revolution which requires an adaptation of the legal framework for markets and the economy. This paper analyzes the privacy concerns in the digital economy from an economics perspective. What can we learn...

This paper analyses whether competition law can help to solve problems of access to data and interoperability in IoT ecosystems, where often one firm has exclu-sive control of the data produced by a smart device (and of the technical access to this device). Such a gatekeeper position can lead to...

The digital revolution has reinvigorated the discussion about the problem how to consider innovation in the application of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as what kind of assessment concepts competition...