Germany
New Research Shows The Breakup of IG Farben Increased Innovation
IG Farben used to be the world’s largest chemical company and a major innovator—until it was broken up in one of the largest antitrust...
Can Companies Use Climate Change as an Excuse to Obtain More Market Power? A ProMarket Interview
In an interview with ProMarket, Jürgen Kühling, the chair of Germany’s Monopolies Commission, discusses the relationship between climate change and antitrust, what Germany's reliance...
Chart of the Week: Two-thirds of Germans Support Russian Energy Embargo
A new survey of German citizens reveals the steps they'd support to help Ukrainians and punish Russia.
According to a new survey of 2,000 Germans...
Lessons from the Past? How Ordoliberal Competition Theory Can Address Market Power in the Digital Age
Some of the lessons uncovered by ordoliberal thinkers during the interwar period in Germany could help us tackle the current challenges posed by the...
Should Google Still be Allowed to Crown the Kings in Digital Markets?
Google search is continuously evolving into a full service provider, directly selecting and presenting the information that we are looking for. At first glance,...
“Power Is Evil in Itself”: The Ordoliberal Quest for a Privilege-Free Order
The lesson from the quest of German ordoliberals for a privilege-free order from the 1930s to the 1950s is that once in motion, the...
Fahmi Quadir: “Short Sellers are Always an Easy Boogeyman”
In an interview with ProMarket, short-seller Fahmi Quadir, who has shorted companies like Wirecard and Valeant, discussed the public perception of short-sellers and what...
Taming Big Tech: What Can We Expect From Germany’s New Antitrust Tool?
Targeted at Big Tech, Germany’s new antitrust tool for dealing with large digital platforms rebalances the power between the competition watchdog and those firms.
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Wirecard Scandal: When All Lines of Defense Against Corporate Fraud Fail
Scandals such as Wirecard can destroy investor trust in capital markets working fairly and with integrity. A new policy brief commissioned by the European...
Seven Reasons Why the Wirecard Fraud Matters
We now know that Wirecard was a massive fraud. The company—treated like a rock star by regulators and key players in finance—fabricated customers, invented...
