We use the recent introduction of biofuels to study the effect of industry factors on the relation-ships between wholesale commodity prices. Correlations between agricultural products and oil are strongest in the 2005-09 period, coinciding with the boom of biofuels, and remain substantial until...

We present a sequence of simulations to analyse the collusive effects of transparency and different degrees of producer crossholding in energy markets. The results suggest that (a) the functional form of the crossholdings/market prices relationship is not linear and better defined by threshold...

In our paper targets, by setting a reserve price, screen acquirers on their (expected) ability to generate merger-speci?c synergies. Both empirical evidence and many common merger models suggest that the di?erence between high- and low-synergy mergers becomes smaller during booms. This implies...

We present an ex-post analysis of the effects of GDF's acquisition of Suez in 2006 created one of the world's largest energy companies. We perform an econometric analysis, based on Difference-in-Difference techniques on the market for trading on the Zeebrugge gas hub in Belgium. Removing...

Ownership of publicly listed German companies has undergone significant changes in recent years. The aim of this report is to document these trends since 2007 and analyze the extent to which firms that compete in the same product market are owned by the same investors, which is known as common...

Die Eigentümerstrukturen börsennotierter deutscher Unternehmen haben sich in den letzten Jahren deutlich verändert. Von besonderem Interesse ist dabei das Phänomen der gemeinsamen Eigentümerstrukturen, das international mit dem Begriff "Common Ownership" bezeichnet wird. Dabei werden...

Wenn man vor allem die Bürgerinnen und Bürger, die untere und mittlere Einkommen beziehen, steuerlich entlasten will, sollte man nicht die Einkommensteuer senken, sondern die Mehrwertsteuer. Eine Senkung des Mehrwertsteuer-Regelsatzes um einen Prozentpunkt auf 18 Prozent würde die...