After almost four decades of price stability, inflation has recently approached historical highs. Initially driven by global energy and food price increases, the magnitude of the surge in inflation caught central banks and markets by surprise. Price pressures are now increasingly broadening to...

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, global economic activity is expected to have fallen by almost 10 percent in the first half of 2020. However, the low point seems to have been passed in the meantime, and in China the economy has even already made up a considerable part of the production...

The global economy continued to recover in the winter semester, despite the number of new infections with the coronavirus rising sharply and containment measures tightened again in many countries. Industrial production and world trade have already fully catched up with activity levels before the...

The global economy remained on track in the first months of 2021, despite surging covid-19 infections and renewed containment measures in many countries. The impact of the pandemic was largely confined to the service sectors. Meanwhile, the pronounced upturn in industrial production and global...

Global growth has decelerated over the course of the year under the impact of high energy prices and great uncertainty. Monetary policy, which is being tightened very quickly in view of high inflationary pressure across the board, is now also putting a drag on economic activity. Overall,...

Produktbündel sind im Wirtschaftsleben allgegenwärtig. Sie können zum einen erhebliche Vorteile für Anbieter und Kunden aufweisen, zum anderen können sie aber auch als Instrument zur Behinderung des Wettbewerbs eingesetzt werden. Die ökonomische und rechtliche Würdigung ist daher sehr...

Die weltwirtschaftliche Aktivität ist infolge der Covid19-Pandemie im ersten Halbjahr 2020 voraussichtlich um fast 10 Prozent gesunken. Die Talsohle scheint aber inzwischen durchschritten, in China hat die Wirtschaft sogar bereits einen erheblichen Teil des Produktionseinbruchs vom Januar und...