Selten hat ein wettbewerbspolitischer Fall so viel Interesse und Kontroversen hervorgerufen wie der E-Book-Fall rund um Amazon, bei dem führende Verlage und große Unternehmen wie Apple involviert sind. Doch dieser spiegelt nur eine von vielen unternehmerischen Vorgehensweisen Amazons wider....

This paper outlines the modern industrial organization theory of media markets including competition policy implications. After recapturing fundamentals of industrial organization theory in a non-technical way, the state of the art of (i) modern platform economics, (ii) the economics of the...

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 analysing the effects of...