How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions in order to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do firm associations engage in environmental self-regulation and what kind of governance devices do they develop in order to tackle the...

This paper is a comment on the analysis of the German security industry by Stuchtey and Skrzypietz (2014). The comment focuses on two issues. Firstly, it argues that it is advantageous for the research agenda of the authors to conceptualize security as a human need and not as an economic good....

Klappentext: In diesem Band wurden Beiträge von Autoren zusammengestellt, die Prof. Dr. Udo Müller im Laufe seines wissenschaftlichen Werdeganges begleitet haben. Entsprechend der großen Bandbreite seiner Interessen und Tätigkeitsbereiche in Forschung und Lehre umfasst dieses Buch ein...

We review the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office Germany) decision on the proposed merger between Springer and ProSiebenSat.1 from an economic point of view. In doing so, it is not our goal to analyse whether the controversial decision by the Bundeskartellamt has been correct or flawed from...

This report on new economic insights summarizes the evolutionary perspective on the theory of economic policy. It emphasizes the limited competence of governments and other agencies to pre-design the evolution of the economic system and markets. In doing so, it nevertheless identifies general...

The article reviews recent developments and the current state of the global steel markets. Special emphasis is given on the transition from an industry in crisis towards a new boom industry and the global concentration process through mergers & acquisitions among steel companies

The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever in-creasing and poses challenges for the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to...

The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two relevant examples. These developments challenge competition...