Antitrust authorities are particularly concerned with the dominant market position of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. These digital conglomerates are characterized by platform-based business models. However, despite their dominance, they are competing with each other to attract...

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the relevance and impacts of this distribution...

In diesem Beitrag werden die potenziellen Vorteile beleuchtet, die sich durch die Digitalisierung auf den Märkten für urbane Mobilität Verbrauchern und neuen Anbietern bei einer adäquaten Regulierung eröffnen. Zunächst führt der Markteintritt neuer Mobilitätsanbieter ganz grundsätzlich...