The collective sale of football broadcasting rights constitutes a cartel, which, in the European Union, is only allowed if it complies with a number of conditions and obligations, inter alia, partial unbundling and the no-single-buyer rule. These regulations were defined with traditional...

The economic literature on the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) establishes empirical evidence for culturally-biased voting, more precisely also biases based on geographical closeness, political relations, ethnical and linguistic affinity. The Bundesvision Song Contest (BSC), a similar contest with...

Produktion, Nachfrage und Wettbewerb im Ligensport -- Empirische Untersuchung des Wettbewerbs europäischer Fußballligen -- Einflussfaktoren auf die Konzentration des europäischen Ligenwettbewerbs -- Ansätze für eine Regulierung des europäischen Ligenwettbewerbs.

Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against "financial doping". Notwithstanding the merits of this discussion, this paper takes the opposite perspective and analyses how market-internal financial regulation itself may anticompetitively...

Stützend auf die gängigen Theorien, Methoden und Modelle der modernen Wettbewerbs- und Industrieökonomik liegt der Kern der Dissertation darin, wie exogene Variablen zu mediengebundenen Verzerrungen von Inhalten auf Unterhaltungsmärkten führen, welche Rolle den "Economics of Superstars"...

The combination of the digitalization of cultural goods and facilitated cross-border availability through the internet fuels a globalization process that is often said to cause a homogenization of demand across countries, in particular, for entertainment goods as music and movies. In the markets...