ZEW Discussion Papers

The paper provides a comprehensive survey of the economics behind the fight against hard core cartels. Following an introductory section, Section 2 focuses on the characterisation and rationalisation of the term…

The development of international airline markets has led to the dominance of three global airline alliances - Star, SkyTeam and oneworld. As part of an overall assessment of the competitive effects of such…

From a competition policy perspective, predatory behaviour ('predation') has always been a rather controversial issue. For example, while some commentators doubt that such forms of behaviour play a significant…

The last couple of years have seen an increasing interest in the evaluation of competition policy. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the UK, for instance, recently started to estimate the 'positive impact' of…

The market developments in international air transportation have led to the dominance of three global airline alliances - Star, SkyTeam and oneworld. At the same time, members of these alliances receive…

Almost all western industrialized countries have introduced some measures for pollution abatement that are supposed to promote health. Our analysis focuses on the impact of pollution exposure on infant health,…

The market for R&D is subject to market failure which leads to an underprovision of R&D from a social point of view. This gives rise for governmental intervention in the market for R&D. For decades, the…

Training programs are an important tool of active labor market policy in Germany as in many other countries. There exist different types of training programs, but also important heterogeneities within a given…

Following the proposal of the World Bank in the end of the 1990s, a number of Central European countries have extended their pay-as-you-go pension systems by a capital-market-based element in the form of…