Based on the European legal rules on freedom of establishment founders of companies have freedom of choice between different corporate laws – and as the emergence of new types such as the Spanish “lightning company” and the French ‘one-euro company' reveal, legislatures more and more try...

The relevant competitors in regard to innovation might, but not necessarily do, correspond to the identified competitors on actual product markets. Hence, the conventional analysis of product markets, in order to assess the potential anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture...

Excessive pricing is an area of competition law that diverged significantly. In general, due to the lack of economic stimulation analysis, the competition authorities have only intervened limited cases related to abuse of dominant position by charging excessively unfair price. In certain...

Production costs play a crucial role in competition policy and price regulation. A shared purpose of both policies is to keep prices close to production costs to the benefit of the consumers and of the society as a whole. The problem is that prices are per product and costs are per firm. So, the...

Obwohl Kartelle i.d.R. illegal sind, verursachen sie in der Realität erhebliche Wohlfahrtsverluste. Die meisten Kartelle werden jedoch nur zufällig entdeckt. Ziel dieser Studie ist daher die Erstellung eines empirischen Werkzeugs, das ein systematisches Marktscreening aller Märkte und das...