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Both in US antitrust and EU competition policy a development to a broader appli-cation of rule of reason instead of per se rules can be observed. In the European discussion the attempt to base competition policy on a more economic approach is mainly viewed as im-proving the economic analysis in...
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An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...
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This paper compares the ECB's conduct of monetary policy with that of the Bundesbank. Estimated monetary policy reaction functions for the Bundesbank (1979:4-1998:12) and the European Central Bank (1999:1-2004:5) show that, while the ECB and the Bundesbank react similarly to expected inflation,...
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Mit dem Inkrafttreten der novellierten Fusionskontrollverodnung hat der bisher tiefgreifendste Reformprozess der EU-Fusionskontrolle am 1. Mai 2004 seinen (vorläufigen) Abschluss gefunden. Anders als in der Literatur vorherrschend geht es in diesem Beitrag um eine ökonomische Betrachtung der...
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Mit wenigen Ausnahmen haben alle Regierungen mit der staatlichen Geldschöpfungsmacht die Bürger durch Verschlechterung der Kaufkraft um einen Teil ihrer Ersparnisse gebracht, in Extremfällen sogar soziale Verwüstung und großes Elend in der Gesellschaft angerichtet. Auch in Zukunft werden...
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In this paper, the introduction of direct-democratic decision-making in all EU decisions is considered when it is feasible without prohibitively increasing decision-making costs. We start with the contractarian argument that each constitution is a contract joining the citizens of a state and...
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The EU competition policy in regard to vertical restraints is mainly based upon neoclassical efficiency-oriented reasonings, leading to a neglect of the innovation dimension. This paper analyses to what extent evolutionary theories of competition and innovation economics can be used to derive...
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Wettbewerbspolitik wird innerhalb der Europäischen Union in erster Linie auf zwei vertikal miteinander verbundenen Ebenen betrieben, nämlich der supranationalen Ebene der EU-Institutionen und Organisationen und der nationalen Ebene der mitgliedstaatlichen Institutionen und Organisationen : Auf...
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