The competition policy of the European Commission has recently shifted towards including more and more consensual arrangements with business companies. While this tendency is already present for a while in merger policy where the Commission has more and more turned away from prohibiting mergers...

This paper provides a comparative analysis of methods for the empirical ex post evaluation of merger control decisions. It develops a competition-policy oriented framework of assessment criteria for the leading evaluation methods and applies them to structural modeling and simulation,...

The papers analyses the emergence of an European media regulation, predominantly through competition policy institutions. Next to ‘narrow’ competition considerations, issues of media bias and cultural diversity are put into focus. Modern media economics views media markets involving issues...

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 more economic approach of European competition policy entails the implementation of a new (normative) conceptual approach of antitrust policy: decisions become more strongly focused on short-run and quantifiable price and quantity effects. This paper contributes to the widespread discussion...

Books reviewed: Bhagwati, Jagdish The Winds of the Hundred Days Costanza, Robert, John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland und Richard Norgaard Einfuhrung in die Okologische Okonomik Fogel, Robert William The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism Frey, Bruno S. Inspiring...