The aim of this paper is to analyse the pricing behaviour of print media firms when consumption on reader markets is addictive or habituated. However, not only the reader but also the advertising market has to be considered by a publisher optimising profits. Because print media markets are...

This paper analyses the quality provision of interrelated market firms under different market structures both theoretically and empirically. A theoretical model is built, where a media firm offers newspapers in a primary market and advertising space in the secondary market. Furthermore, the...

Gegenstand des Gutachtens ist die Analyse der Auswirkungen eines Leistungsschutzrechtes für digitale Presseinhalte im Internet (Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger) aus ökonomischer Perspektive. Hintergrund ist das Vorhaben der Bundesregierung, ein solches Leistungsschutzrecht noch in...