Welcome at VWL I (Prof. Dr. Georg Götz), the Chair for Industrial Organization, Regulation and Antitrust

The links below provide you with some basic information about our team at VWL I and our activities. Both in research and teaching our focus is on applied industrial organization, in particular on antitrust and the regulation of network industries. Information about the courses taught in English are available below.

• Staff & Contact
• Research Interests
• Selected Publications
• Long CV Georg Götz
• Courses taught in English:
  • Winter term 2011/12: Industrial Organization

Recent Publications

• Margin Squeeze in Fixed-Network Telephony Markets — Competitive or Anticompetitive?
  Briglauer, Wolfgang; Götz, Georg; and Schwarz, Anton (2011) in: Review of Network Economics: Vol. 10: Iss. 4, Article 3.
• Effective Competition: The Importance and Relevance for Network Industries, Christian Bender, Georg Götz & Benjamin Pakula  in: Intereconomics, Vol.46 (1), Januar 2011. (Link to the Working Paper)
• Quality Investments and Organisational Structures - An Application to the Railway Industry, Georg Götz and Benjamin Pakula, Working Paper, June 2010.
• Coexistence of service- and facility-based competition: The relevance of access prices for "make-or-buy"-decisions, Christian Bender and Georg Götz, Workingpaper, June 2010
• Simulation and Prosecution of a Cartel with Endogenous Cartel Formation. Johannes Paha, MAGKS Discussion Paper No. 07, March 2010.
• Using Accounting Data in Cartel Damage Calculations – Blessing or Menace? Johannes Paha, MAGKS Discussion Paper No. 29, June 2009.
• R&D cooperation with unit-elastic demand, Georg Götz and Anna Hammerschmidt, Bulletin of Economic Research, 61(2), 179-188.
  
• Competition, Regulation, and Broadband Access to the Internet. Georg Götz, MAGKS Discussion Paper No. 24, February 2009.
• Optimization Heuristics for Determining Internal Rating Grading Scales. Marianna Lyra, Johannes Paha, Sandra Paterlini und Peter Winker. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, forthcoming 2009. (Working Paper)
• Margin Squeeze in Fixed-Network Telephony Markets - competitive or anticompetitive?
  Wolfgang Briglauer, Georg Götz und Anton Schwarz, MAGKS Discussion Paper No. 27, November 2008
• Do we (still) need to regulate fixed network retail markets?
  Wolfgang Briglauer, Georg Götz und Anton Schwarz, MAGKS Discussion Paper No. 26, November 2008

Past and Forthcoming Events

• "Lectures on Cartels"
• Workshop "Effective Competition in Network Industries"