While liberalization in energy markets has been a widely successful process all over the world, incumbents often still hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and...

While liberalization in energy markets has been a widely successful process all over the world, incumbents often still hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and...

While markets have been liberalized all over the world, incumbents often still hold a dominant position, e.g. on energy markets. Thus, wholesale electricity markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and their cause and...

Der Entsorgungswirtschaft wird im Rahmen wettbewerbspolitischer Diskussionen kaum Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Dabei ist der Wettbewerb teilweise sehr schwach ausgeprägt. Gebührenfinanzierte kommunale Unternehmen sind im Bereich des Siedlungsmülls oft allein für die Entsorgung verantwortlich;...

In Teilen der Entsorgungswirtschaft ist der Wettbewerb noch schwach ausgeprägt. Im Bereich der Entsorgung von Haushaltsmüll dominieren oftmals gebührenfinanzierte kommunale Unternehmen den Markt. Die Rolle der Kommunen als alleinige Leistungserbringer wurde zuletzt auch durch allgemeine...

This paper analyzes the effect of inter urban buses competing on a few routes against trains within an established railway network. In line with expectations, we show that this can lead to unprofitable train service on these routes. However, within an established railway network with every track...

Research conducted by university researchers for industry constitutes one of the main channels through which knowledge and technology are transferred from science to the private sector. Since the value of such inputs for the innovation performance of firms has been found to be considerable, it...