Unter diesem Titel hat das ifo Institut in diesem Frühjahr eine Studie veröffentlicht, die zehn Jahre nach der Einführung der sektorspezifischen Regulierung und beträchtlichen Markterfolgen in der Telekommunikation prüfte, ob das ursprüngliche Ziel einer vorübergehenden Regulierung aus...

Increasing environmental awareness may affect the pleasure of consuming a good for which an environmental friendly substitute is available. When deciding to buy differentiated products, a compromise is sometimes made between preferred characteristics of the good and its environmental properties....

The objective of our approach is to develop a model which captures horizontal product differentiation under environmental awareness, product innovation under network effects, and price competition whereby environmentally friendly products are costlier to produce. As an example, we refer to...