This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the United States. The unifying theme in all of the pa pers is that the goal of public policy in this area should be to make the broadest and most functional competition possible by means of an ap propriate regulatory framework. Because the European and American telecommunications markets are becoming more intertwined each day, the issues addressed in this volume will be topical to the business, government, and academic communities for some time. For...

Die in regelmassigen Abstanden erscheinenden "Berichte zur Lage des Eigentums" thematisieren die Problem- und Erkenntnisfelder im Umfeld des Privateigentums in all seinen relevanten Bezugen, aus allen wissenschaftlichen Forschungsrichtungen sowie in nationaler, europaischer und globaler Perspektive. Im vorliegenden ersten Bericht stehen juristische Fragestellungen im Vordergrund. Am Beginn indes steht eine eigentumstheoretische Analyse zur sozialen Funktion des Eigentums von Christoph Engel. Otto Depenheuer skizziert, analysiert und kommentiert die fur das nationale Eigentumsrecht...

Human behavior is infinitely complex and unpredictable, the result of thousands of interactions between predispositions, external factors and physical and cognitive processes. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including psychology, economics, and sociological and political studies, this book develops a coherent and accessible theory for explaining the unpredictability of individual behavior. The author then highlights the danger of institutional reforms undermining the very capacity to generate predictability which is so central to their success.

This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the United States. The unifying theme in all of the pa pers is that the goal of public policy in this area should be to make the broadest and most functional competition possible by means of an ap propriate regulatory framework. Because the European and American telecommunications markets are becoming more intertwined each day, the issues addressed in this volume will be topical to the business, government, and academic communities for some time. For...

Die in regelmassigen Abstanden erscheinenden "Berichte zur Lage des Eigentums" thematisieren die Problem- und Erkenntnisfelder im Umfeld des Privateigentums in all seinen relevanten Bezugen, aus allen wissenschaftlichen Forschungsrichtungen sowie in nationaler, europaischer und globaler Perspektive. Im vorliegenden ersten Bericht stehen juristische Fragestellungen im Vordergrund. Am Beginn indes steht eine eigentumstheoretische Analyse zur sozialen Funktion des Eigentums von Christoph Engel. Otto Depenheuer skizziert, analysiert und kommentiert die fur das nationale Eigentumsrecht...