Wolfgang Kerber

University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics

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Marburg, D-35037

Germany

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1.

Should Competition Law Promote Efficiency? Some Reflections of an Economist on the Normative Foundations of Competition Law

ECONOMIC THEORY AND COMPETITION LAW, Josef Drexl, Laurence Idot, and Joel Moneger, eds., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2008
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Microsoft, Refusal to License Intellectual Property Rights, and the Incentives Balance Test of the EU Commission

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Nov 2008
Wolfgang Kerber and Claudia Schmidt
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Microsoft, refusal to license, competition law, intellectual property rights

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Digital Markets, Data, and Privacy: Competition Law, Consumer Law, and Data Protection

Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht. Internationaler Teil (GRUR Int) 2016, 639-647
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2017
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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digital economy, Big Data, privacy, data protection, competition law, consumer law

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Competition Policy with Optimally Differentiated Rules Instead of 'Per Se Rules vs. Rule of Reason'

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Dec 2005
Arndt Christiansen and Wolfgang Kerber
Bundeskartellamt - German Federal Cartel Office and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Competition Policy, European Competition Law, Rule of Reason

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The Theory of Regulatory Competition and Competition Law

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Apr 2009
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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international competition policy, regulatory competition, competition law, antitrust law

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The Case of Ryanair - EU State Aid Policy on the Wrong Runway

ORDO, Vol. 55, pp. 313-332, 2004
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Jan 2008
Wolfgang Kerber and Friedrich Gröteke
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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A New (Intellectual) Property Right for Non-Personal Data? An Economic Analysis

Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, Internationaler Teil (GRUR Int), 11/2016, 989-999
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2017
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Digital economy, data ownership, intellectual property

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Competition, Innovation and Maintaining Diversity Through Competition Law

ECONOMIC APPROACHES TO COMPETITION LAW: FOUNDATIONS AND LIMITATIONS, J. Drexl, W. Kerber, R. Podszun, eds., Edward Elgar, 2010
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Jan 2010
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Innovation, Diversity, Antitrust Law, Competition Policy, Innovation Markets, Mergers

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Patent Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Antitrust Perspective

Dewenter, Haucap, Kehder (eds.), Wettbewerb und Regulierung in Medien, Politik und Märkten, Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Jörn Kruse, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2013, pp. 385-413
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
Jonas Frank and Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg, School of Business & Economics and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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antitrust and regulation, Hatch-Waxman Act, patent settlements, patent validity, pharmaceutical industry

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Competition, Innovation, and Competition Law: Dissecting the Interplay

MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics, 42-2017
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Oct 2017
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Competition, Innovation, Competition Law, Merger Control, Innovation Market

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EU State Aid Policy, Economic Approach, Bailouts, and Merger Policy: Two Comments

STRUCTURE AND EFFECTS IN EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW, Basedow, Jürgen, and Wolfgang Wurmnest, eds., Kluwer Law International
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Feb 2010
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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State aid policy, merger policy, bailout, competition law

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Horizontal and Vertical Regulatory Competition in EU Company Law: The Case of the European Private Company (SPE)

Andrássy Working Paper Series No.28
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2013
Martina Eckardt and Wolfgang Kerber
Andrássy University Budapest and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Company Law, Corporate Governance, Regulatory Competition, European Integration

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Rights on Data: The EU Communication ‘Building a European Data Economy’ From an Economic Perspective

Forthcoming, Sebastian Lohsse, Reiner Schulze, Dirk Staudenmayer (Eds.), Trading Data in the Digital Economy: Legal Concepts and Tools (Baden Baden, Nomos 2017)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Sep 2017
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Big Data, machine-generated data, data ownership, data access, data markets, internet of things

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Towards a Differentiated Analysis of Competition of Competition Laws

ZWeR - Journal of Competition Law, pp. 411-448, 2003
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Jan 2008
Wolfgang Kerber and Oliver Budzinski
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and Ilmenau University of Technology
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Data Governance Regimes in the Digital Economy: The Example of Connected Cars

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Nov 2017
Wolfgang Kerber and Jonas Frank
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and University of Marburg, School of Business & Economics
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Internet of Things, Connected Cars, Big Data, Data Governance, Data Ownership, Data Access

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Optimal Sequential Investigation Rules in Competition Law

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Sep 2008
Wolfgang Kerber, Jürgen-Peter Kretschmer and Georg von Wangenheim
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics, Philipps University Marburg - Department of Business Administration and Economics and University of Kassel
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Law Enforcement, Decision-Making, Competition Law, Antitrust Law

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European System of Private Laws: An Economic Perspective

THE MAKING OF EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW, Fabrizio Cafaggi & Horatia Muir Watt, eds., Edward Elgar, 2008
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Jan 2008
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Interoperability in the Digital Economy

Forthcoming in: Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law (Jipitec), MAGKS, Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics, No. 12-2017
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2017
Wolfgang Kerber and Heike Schweitzer
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law
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interoperability, standards, digital economy, digital goods, platforms, communication networks

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The Rise and Fall of the German Miracle

Critical Review, Vol. 13, pp. 337-358, 2001
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2009
Wolfgang Kerber and Sandra Hartig
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Patent Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry: What Can We Learn from Economic Analysis?

MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics, 01-2016
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 May 2016
Jonas Frank and Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg, School of Business & Economics and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Patent settlements, probabilistic patents, weak patents, pharmaceutical industry, generic competition

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Empirical Analysis of the Assessment of Innovation Effects in U.S. Merger Cases

Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 16, 3, pp. 373-402
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Benjamin René Kern, Ralf Dewenter and Wolfgang Kerber
Philipps University Marburg - School of Business Administration and Economics, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg - Department of Economics and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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innovation, merger policy, US antitrust, innovation market

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Exhaustion of Digital Goods: An Economic Perspective

MAGKS, Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics, No. 23-2016; Zeitschrift für Geistiges Eigentum / Intellectual Property Journal 2016, 149-169
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 May 2016 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2017
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Policy Innovation, Decentralised Experimentation, and Laboratory Federalism

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Nov 2008
Nicole J. Saam and Wolfgang Kerber
University of Erfurt and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Laboratory Federalism, Policy Learning, Policy Innovation, Decentralisation

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Assessing Innovation Effects in US Merger Policy: Theory, Practice, Recent Discussions, and Perspectives

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Jun 2017
Wolfgang Kerber and Benjamin René Kern
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and Philipps University Marburg - School of Business Administration and Economics
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innovation, merger policy, US antitrust, innovation markets, Horizontal Merger Guidelines

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Optimal Incentives for Patent Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry

MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics, 02-2017
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2018
Enrico Boehme, Jonas Frank and Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg, University of Marburg, School of Business & Economics and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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patent settlements, collusion, patent challenges

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Regulatory Networks, Legal Federalism, and Multi-Level Regulatory Systems

in: Marciano, Alain, and Giovanni Ramello (eds.), Law and Economics in Europe and the U.S., Cham: Springer International, 2017, pp. 109-133
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 May 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Wolfgang Kerber and Julia Wendel
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and University of Marburg
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Regulatory networks, multi-level regulatory systems, legal federalism, EU regulation

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Soft Paternalism and Consumer Policy

English translation of the German version "Soft Paternalismus und Verbraucherpolitik" (published in: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik 40(2), 2014, pp. 274-295)., MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 49-2014
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2015
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Soft Paternalism, Consumer Policy, Behavioral Economics

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Modernising the Law on Abuse of Market Power: Report for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Germany)

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Oct 2018
Heike Schweitzer, Justus Haucap, Wolfgang Kerber and Robert Welker
Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Department of Economics, University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law
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competition law, market power, abuse, dominance, relative market power, superior market power, merger control, digital economy, platform economy, siec, tipping, oligopoly, conglomerate, information intermediaries, data access

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Data Governance in Connected Cars: The Problem of Access to In-Vehicle Data

Forthcoming in: JIPITEC (Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Dec 2018
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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data governance, connected cars, data economy, data access

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Market Integration and Legal Federalism in the EU

Ruffert, M. (ed.), European Economy and People's Mobility: Project Conference of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Jena. Stuttgart: Mohr Siebeck, 2016, pp 143-162
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Aug 2016
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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European Internal Market, market integration, legal federalism, harmonisation, regulatory competition

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Data Governance in Connected Cars, Access to In-Vehicle Data, Data Rights, and Competition Law (Presentation Slides)

13th Annual EPIP Conference, Berlin, September 5 - 7, 2018
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Oct 2018
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Automotive industry, connected cars, Big Data, data rights, data access

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The International System of Intellectual Property from the Perspective of the Economics of Legal Federalism

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 May 2018
Diane Asobo and Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Business & Economics and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Patent, International IP System, Legal Federalism, TRIPS

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Modernisierung der Missbrauchsaufsicht für marktmächtige Unternehmen: Gutachten für das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (Modernising the Law on Abuse of Market Power Report for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy)

Number of pages: 184 Posted: 26 Nov 2018
Heike Schweitzer, Justus Haucap, Wolfgang Kerber and Robert Welker
Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Department of Economics, University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law
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competition law, market power, abuse, dominance, relative market power, superior market power, merger control, digital economy, platform economy, siec, tipping, oligopoly, conglomerate, information intermediaries, data access

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Regulation of Network Sectors in the EU: A Federalist Perspective

Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 61(1), 2014, pp. 181-194
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 02 May 2016
Wolfgang Kerber and Julia Wendel
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and University of Marburg
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EU sector regulation, legal federalism, regulatory networks, telecommunication

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Developing Two‐Tiered Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law: Assessing the Impact of the Societas Privata Europaea

Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 41, Issue 1, pp. 152-171, 2014
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Feb 2014
Martina Eckardt and Wolfgang Kerber
Andrássy University Budapest and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Mutual Recognition Revisited: Misunderstandings, Inconsistencies, and a Suggested Reinterpretation

Kyklos, Vol. 61, Issue 3, pp. 447-465, August 2008
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Jul 2008
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics
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Zur Komplexität der Anwendung des ökonomischen Anreizparadigmas bei Geistigen Eigentumsrechten. Ein wirtschaftspolitischer Analyserahmen (The Complexity of the Application of the Economic Incentives Paradigm on Intellectual Property: A Three-Step Analytical Framework)

Zeitschrift fuer Geistiges Eigentum / Intellectual Property Journal, Volume 5, Number 3, September 2013 , pp. 245-273(29)
Posted: 05 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics

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Intellectual Property, innovation incentives, patents

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Policy Learning in Europe: The Open Method of Coordination and Laboratory Federalism

Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 227-247, 2007
Posted: 30 Jan 2008
Wolfgang Kerber and Martina Eckardt
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and Andrássy University Budapest

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European Union, governance, innovation, laboratory federalism

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Economic Principles of Competition Law

COMPETITION LAW: EUROPEAN COMMUNITY PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE, Günther Hirsch, Frank Montag, and Franz-Jürgen Säcker, eds., pp. 202-393, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2008
Posted: 15 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2008
Wolfgang Kerber and Ulrich Schwalbe
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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EU Competition Policy, Vertical Restraints, and Innovation: An Analysis from an Evolutionary Perspective

World Competition, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 507-532, 2005
Posted: 14 Jan 2008
Wolfgang Kerber and Simonetta Vezzoso
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and University of Trento

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Institutional Competition among Jurisdictions: An Evolutionary Approach

Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp.193-219, 1994
Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 12 May 2008
Wolfgang Kerber and Viktor Vanberg
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Competition as a Test of Hypotheses: Simulation of Knowledge-Generating Market Processes

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), Vol. 4, No.3, 2001
Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 12 May 2008
Wolfgang Kerber and Nicole J. Saam
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and University of Erfurt

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An Optional European Contract Law Code: Advantages and Disadvantages

European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 215-236, 2006
Posted: 17 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2013
Stefan Grundmann and Wolfgang Kerber
Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law and University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics

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Contract law, European union, Legal federalism, Regulatory competition

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European Corporate Laws, Regulatory Competition and Path Dependence

European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 13, 2002
Posted: 17 Dec 2007
Wolfgang Kerber and Klaus Heine
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Erasmus School of Law

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European corporate law, regulatory competition, path dependence, choice of law

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Competition, Knowledge, and Institutions

Journal of Economic Issues, No. 2, pp. 457-463, 2006
Posted: 17 Dec 2007
Wolfgang Kerber
University of Marburg - School of Business & Economics

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