englischEconomic research shows that competitor-based-pricing, promising to match or to beat a competitor’s lower price, can impede competition. By using these types of guarantees a firm could deter its rivals from undercutting its price because the resulting quantity effect is lower than usual. At [...]
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englischLiterature produces textual bodies in (at least) two ways: it creates textual corpora as well as linguistic representations of bodies and body images. This volume is devoted to negotiations of bodies and text in literature and film from the nineteenth century to the present: bodies in texts, [...]
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englischThe conflict over the programmatic unity of youth welfare/youth assistance has run throughout the history of social pedagogy since the Reich Youth Welfare Act of 1922 until today. What is the relationship between youth welfare, youth work and the youth movement and thus between disciplining, [...]
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englischBanks are subject to numerous obligations when providing services relating to securities transactions. The author explains how these business conduct duties implemented in Germany in the wake of MiFID/MiFID II affect liability under private law (in particular relating to Secs. 63 et seqs. [...]
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englischWhich legal criteria can be used as import rules for mathematical modeling of environmental predictions? The author develops criteria to make extra-legal influences in the form of the prediction results of computer-aided modeling on administrative and judicial proceedings judicial decisions [...]
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englischThe publication examines methods for dealing with the taking of evidence in mass actions that pursue multiple uniform claims. Such mass actions present a significant challenge for the judiciary. The author discusses the possibilities of sampling in procedural law de lege lata and develops a [...]
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englischThe events surrounding the GameStop stock have highlighted the role of finfluencers in social media for the capital markets. Inspired by Drew McLellan's analogy of a lively cocktail party, the work analyzes the impact of social media usage on information exchange in the capital market. [...]
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englischWe are living in a time of transition and therefore in a time of planning: the energy transition and the need to provide security of supply require greater diversification of gas deliveries, the build-up of infrastructure for the landing of LNG, the expansion of electricity grids for the [...]
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englischThe volume is committed to the reconstruction of Plato's relationship with the past in literary, socio-economic, and political contexts. The past is analysed as a real “resource” from which content can be drawn for reinterpretation and resemantisation. The analysis shows how Plato develops a [...]
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englischThis book aims to establish a foundational understanding of the prohibition of self-favouring by digital gatekeepers as stipulated in Article 6(5) of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It elineates current concerns while offering guidance for effective compliance.
Until now, little attention [...]
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