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...

Newspapers have been experiencing declining circulation figures and advertising revenues for several years. Declining advertising figures, in particular, pose a threat to newspapers – this is especially severe in the U.S. where 73% of newspapers' revenues are generated through advertising....

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...

Despite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided market has offered numerous valuable insights for the analysis of non-ordinary industries in which a supplier serves two distinct customer groups that are indirectly interrelated by externalities. Examples include payment...

We demonstrate that the popular Farrell-Shapiro-Framework (FSF) for the analysis of mergers in oligopolies relies regarding its policy conclusions sensitively on the assumption that rational agents will only propose privately profitable mergers. If this assumption held, a positive external...

Roughly during the last decade, European Competition Policy has undergone a series of fundamental changes. All four areas – cartel policy, merger policy, abuse control, and state aid control – have been subject to a modernization process, which led to a focus on analyzing the effects of...

This paper empirically examines factors influencing box office success of international movies in Russia between 2012 and 2016. It adds to existing research on national movie markets, by highlighting the relevance of differences in culture, institutions, language, and consumption habits for...