Selten hat ein wettbewerbspolitischer Fall so viel Interesse und Kontroversen hervorgerufen wie der E-Book-Fall rund um Amazon, bei dem führende Verlage und große Unternehmen wie Apple involviert sind. Doch dieser spiegelt nur eine von vielen unternehmerischen Vorgehensweisen Amazons wider....

Our article investigates the impact of vertical integration (without foreclosure) on innovation. We compare cases where either (i) two manufacturers or (ii) a manufacturer and a vertically integrated retailer invest. Then, the independent manufacturer(s) and the retailer bargain over non-linear...

Does increasing common ownership influence firms’ automation strategies? We develop and empirically test a theory indicating that institutional investors’ common ownership drives firms that employ workers in the same local labor markets to boost automation-related innovation. First, we...

Zu Beginn der Untersuchung arbeitet der Verfasser die Faktoren für die marktübergreifende Machtkonzentration von Google Search heraus. Darauf aufbauend geht er der Frage nach, inwiefern die Änderungen, die durch die 10. GWB-Novelle vorgenommen wurden, zum Abbau dieser Machtkonzentrationen...

We identify an important feature of current digital governance systems: "third-party funded digital barter": consumers of digital services get many digital services for free (or under- priced) and in return have personal information about themselves collected for free. In addition, the digital...

An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...

This paper investigates the implications of U.S. withdrawal on environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, and the distribution of compliance costs taking into account market power of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) on emission permit markets. While exercise of market power on behalf of FSU...