The proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an opportunity to prevent and remedy anti-competitive conduct by large digital platforms. If the Act is designed in an adequate manner to target specific problems, it can improve the contestability of platform services markets and markets that rely...

Dieses essential erläutert die Produktion von Open-Air-Musikveranstaltungen – von der ersten Konzeption und der Suche nach einer guten Location über technische Aspekte wie Licht und Ton bis zum Booking, den Gewerken, der Logistik und dem Sponsoring. Eine zusammenfassende Darstellung des...

Am linken Niederrhein, am westlichen Rand Nordrhein-Westfalens liegt Xanten. Die Innenstadt beleben Geschäfte mit einem vielfältigen Branchenmix. Eine aktuelle Case Study untersucht und vergleicht den Digitalisierungsstand des Einzelhandels in der Innenstadt von Xanten vor und nach der ersten...

South Africaś trade barriers are still relatively high compared to other emerging market economies, and its industrial policy still preferentially treats certain industries. Based on a static GTAP model, we estimate the economic impact of further trade liberalization on the South African...

Does a multilateral fiscal rule improve market discipline in a monetary union? This paper studies the impact of political events that systematically undermined the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) on EMU sovereign default risk for the period 2001 to 2005. For various EMU member countries our...

These days, plenty of cognoscenti in academia and politics share the common concern that the build-up of global macroeconomic imbalances threatens the international economy. While there is broad disagreement on the essence of what an imbalance exactly is, the term is generally associated with...

Covid-19 and its broader implications have highlighted the importance of Europe's digital transformation to ensure Europeans' social and economic well-being. It provides important new learnings about Europe's quest for "technology sovereignty". While the debate about technology sovereignty is...