This paper examines how different unionisation structures affect firms' innovation incentives and industry employment. We distinguish three modes of unionisation with increasing degree of centralisation: (1) 'Decentralisation' where wages are determined independently at the firm-level, (2)...

This paper examines mobile termination fees and their regulation when networks are asymmetric in size. It is demonstrated that with consumer ignorance about the exact termination rates (a) a mobile network's termination rate is the higher the smaller the network's size (as measured through its...

This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommuncations markets and, bases on this analysis, we discuss whether regulatory intervention in mobile telephone markets is justified from an economic perspective. Starting point of our analysis is the observation that an evaluation of...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...

This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good to an imperfectly competitive input market. We apply the taxonomy of business strategies introduced by Fudenberg and Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria. We...

This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). As MNP allows consumers to keep their telephone number when switching providers, it reduces consumers' switching costs. However, MNP may also cause consumer ignorance if telephone numbers no longer identify...

Das Fußballstadion von Hannover 96 wird für die WM 2006 umgebaut, sodass statt 50.480 vorübergehend nur noch 23.000 Zuschauerplätze verfügbar sind. Weil die Ticketpreise vom Verein um bis zu 70 Prozent angehoben wurden, gab es wütende Proteste unter den Fans (vgl. Heike, 2003). Die...

Das vorliegende Papier beschreibt und analysiert die erfolgte Liberalisierung des Telekom-munikationssektors in Deutschland. Zu diesem Zweck werden die erfolgten Liberalisierungs-maßnahmen beschrieben und ihre Auswirkungen auf die verschiedenen Märkte analysiert. Während der Wettbewerb in den...