Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kerber (Philipps-University Marburg)

Selected Publications*

(August 2011)

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I.  Articles in Journals and Volumes

• Mutual Recognition as a Governance Mechanism, in: Ioannis Lianos and Okeoghene Oduku (eds.), Regulating Trade in Services in the EU and the WTO: Trust, Distrust and Economic Integration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2011).
• Zentralisierung von Kompetenzen durch die europäische Beihilfenkontrolle [Centralisation of Powers through European State Aid Policy], in: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung (ed.), Jahrbuch des Föderalismus, Baden-Baden, 2011, pp. 44-56
• Regelorientierte Wettbewerbspolitik aus rechtsökonomischer Sicht [Rule-oriented Competition Poliy: A Law and Economics Perspective], in: Stefan Bechtold, Joachim Jickeli, Mathias Rohe (eds.), Recht, Ordnung und Wettbewerb, Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Wernhard Möschel, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011, pp. 341-353.
• Competition, Innovation, and Maintaining Diversity through Competition Law, in: Drexl, Josef, Kerber, Wolfgang, and Rupprecht Podszun (eds.), Economic Approaches to Competition Law: Foundations and Limitations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011, pp. 173-201.
• Dynamischer Wettbewerb und Evolution: Anmerkungen zu Hoppmanns Beiträgen zur Wettbewerbs- und Markttheorie [Dynamic Competition and Evolution: Hoppmann's Contributions to the Theory of Competition and Markets], in: Viktor Vanberg (ed.), Evolution und freiheitlicher Wettbewerb, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010, pp. 169-191.
• Should Competition Law Promote Efficiency? - Some Reflections of an Economist on the Normative Foundations of Competition Law, in: Drexl, Josef, Idot, Laurence, and Joel Moneger (eds.), Economic Theory and Competition Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2009, pp. 93-120.
• Mutual Recognition Revisited: Misunderstandings, Inconsistencies, and a Suggested Reinterpretation, in: Kyklos, Vol. 61, 2008, pp. 447-465 [coauthor: Roger Van den Bergh].
• "Rules vs. Standards" or Standards as Delegation of Authority for Making (Optimally Differentiated) Rules, in: Eger, Thomas et al. (eds.), Internalization of the Law and its Economic Analysis, Wiesbaden: Gabler 2008, pp. 489-498.

• European System of Private Laws: An Economic Perspective, in: Cafaggi, Fabrizio, and Horatia Muir Watt (eds.), The Making of European Private Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2008, pp. 64-97.
• Institutional Change in Globalization - Transnational Commercial Law from an Evolutionary Economics Perspective, in: German Law Journal, Vol. 9(4), 2008, pp. 411-436; an extended version: Transnational Commercial Law, Multi-level Legal Systems, and Evolutionary Economics, in: Peer Zumbansen, Gralf-Peter Calliess (eds.), Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory, Cheltenham, Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2011, pp. 297-321.
• Economic Principles of Competition Law, in: Hirsch, Günther, Montag, Frank, and Franz-Jürgen Säcker (eds.), Competition Law: European Community Practice and Procedure - Article-by-article Commentary, London: Sweet & Maxwell 2008, pp. 202-393 [coauthor: Ulrich Schwalbe]; in German: Ökonomische Grundlagen des Wettbewerbsrechts, in: Hirsch, Günther, Montag, Frank, and Franz-Jürgen Säcker (eds.), Münchener Kommentar zum Europäischen und Deutschen Wettbewerbsrecht (Kartellrecht), Bd. 1: Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht, Munich: C.H. Beck 2007, pp. 238-430.
• Policy Learning in Europe: The "Open Method of Coordination" and Laboratory Federalism, in: Journal of European Public Policy, Vol.14(2), 2007, pp. 227-247 [coauthor: Martina Eckardt].
• Mehr-Ebenen-Jurisdiktionssysteme: Zur variablen Architektur von Integration [Multi-Level-Systems of Jurisdictions: The Variable Architecture of Integration], in: Vollmer, Uwe (ed.), Ökonomische und politische Grenzen von Wirtschaftsräumen, Schriftenreihe des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2006, pp. 109-146 [coauthor: Lars Feld].
• Knowledge Accumulation in Hayekian Market Process Theory under Limited Imitability Assumptions, in: Rennard, Jean-Philippe (ed.), Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economy and Management, Vol. I, Hershey/London/Melbourne/Singapore: Idea Group Reference 2006, pp. 352-366 [coauthor: Nicole Saam].
• Competition, Knowledge, and Institutions, in: Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XL(2), 2006, pp. 457-463.
• Competition Policy with Optimally Differentiated Rules Instead of "Per se Rules vs. Rule of Reason", in: Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Vol. 2(2), 2006, pp. 215-244 [coauthor: Arndt Christiansen].
• An Optional European Contract Law Code: Advantages and Disadvantages, in: European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 21 (3), 2006, pp. 215-236 [coauthor: Stefan Grundmann].
• Internationale Wettbewerbspolitik aus ökonomischer Perspektive [International Competition Policy from the Perspective of Economics], in: Oberender, Peter (ed.), Internationale Wettbewerbspolitik, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2006, pp. 9-40 [coauthor: Oliver Budzinski].
• Applying Evolutionary Economics to Economic Policy: the Example of Competitive Federalism, in: Dopfer, Kurt (ed.), Economics, Evolution and the State: The Governance of Complexity, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2005, pp. 296-324.
• EU Competition Policy, Vertical Restraints, and Innovation: An Analysis from an Evolutionary Perspective, in: World Competition, Vol. 28 (4), 2005, pp. 507-532 [coauthor: Simonetta Vezzoso].
• The Case of Ryan Air - EU State Aid Policy on the Wrong Runway, in: ORDO Vol. 55, 2004, pp. 313-332 [coauthor: Friedrich Gröteke].
• Competition of Competition Laws: Mission Impossible?, in: Epstein, Richard, and Michael S. Greve (eds.), Competition Laws in Conflict. Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy, Washington, D.C.: AEI Press 2004, pp. 31-65 [coauthor: Oliver Budzinski].
• Institutional Evolution, Regulatory Competition and Path Dependence, in: Pelikan, Pavel, and Gerhard Wegner (eds.), Evolutionary Analysis of Economic Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2003, pp. 191-222 [coauthor: Klaus Heine].
• An International Multi-Level System of Competition Laws: Federalism in Antitrust, in: Drexl, Josef (ed.), The Future of Transnational Antitrust - From Comparative to Common Competition Law, Berne/The Hague/London/Boston: Staempfli/Kluwer 2003, pp. 269-300.
• Wettbewerbsföderalismus als Integrationskonzept für die Europäische Union [Competitive Federalism as a Concept for European Integration], in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik Vol. 4 (1), 2003, pp. 43-64.
• European Corporate Laws, Regulatory Competition and Path Dependence, in: European Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 13, 2002, pp. 47-71 [coauthor: Klaus Heine].
• Information Intermediaries and Party Autonomy - The Example of Securities and Insurance Markets, in: Grundmann, Stefan, Kerber, Wolfgang, and Stephen Weatherill (eds.), Party Autonomy and the Role of Information in the Internal Market, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 2001, pp. 264-310 [coauthor: Stefan Grundmann].
• Constitutional Aspects of Party Autonomy and Its Limits - The Perspective of Constitutional Economics, in: Grundmann, Stefan, Kerber, Wolfgang, and Stephen Weatherill (eds.), Party Autonomy and the Role of Information in the Internal Market, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 2001, pp. 49-79 [coauthor: Viktor Vanberg].
• Competition as a Test of Hypotheses: Simulation of Knowledge-generating Market Processes, in: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), Vol. 4, No.3 (2001) <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/4/3/2.html> [coauthor: Nicole Saam].
• The Rise and Fall of the German Miracle, in: Critical Review Vol. 13, 2001, pp. 337-358. [co-author: Sandra Hartig].
• Interjurisdictional Competition within the European Union, in: Fordham International Law Journal Vol. 23, 2000, pp. S217-S249.
• Rechtseinheitlichkeit und Rechtsvielfalt aus ökonomischer Sicht [Uniformity and Variety of Law from the Perspective of Economics], in: Grundmann, Stefan (ed.), Systembildung und Systemlücken in Kerngebieten des Europäischen Privatrechts. Gesellschafts-, Arbeits- und Schuldvertragsrecht, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2000, pp. 67-97.
• Erfordern Globalisierung und Standortwettbewerb einen Paradigmenwechsel in der Theorie der Wirtschaftspolitik? [Do Globalisation and Locational Competition Require a New Paradigm in the Theory of Economic Policy ?] in: ORDO Vol. 49, 1998, pp. 253-268.
• Zum Problem einer Wettbewerbsordnung für den Systemwettbewerb [Towards an Institutional Framework for Systems Competition], in: Jahrbuch für Neue Politische Ökonomie Vol. 17, 1998, pp. 199-230.
• Die EU-Beihilfenkontrolle als Wettbewerbsordnung: Probleme aus der Perspektive des Wettbewerbs zwischen Jurisdiktionen [The EC State Aids Policy as an Institutional Framework for Competition: Problems from the Perspective of Interjurisdictional Competition], in: Cassel, Dieter (ed.), Europäische Integration als ordnungspolitische Gestaltungsaufgabe. Probleme der Vertiefung und Erweiterung der Europäischen Union, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1998, pp. 37-74.
• Wettbewerb als Hypothesentest: Eine evolutorische Konzeption wissenschaffenden Wettbewerbs [Competition as a Test of Hypotheses: An Evolutionary Concept of Knowledge-generating Competition], in: Delhaes, Karl von, and Ulrich Fehl (eds.), Dimensionen des Wettbewerbs: Seine Rolle in der Entstehung und Ausgestaltung von Wirtschaftsordnungen, Stuttgart: Fischer 1997, pp. 29-78.
• Recht als Selektionsumgebung für evolutorische Wettbewerbsprozesse [Law as an Selection Environment for Evolutionary Competition Processes], in: Priddat, Birger P., and Gerhard Wegner (eds.), Zwischen Evolution und Institution. Neue Ansätze in der ökonomischen Theorie, Marburg: Metropolis 1996, pp. 297-326.
• Institutional Competition Among Jurisdictions: An Evolutionary Approach, in: Constitutional Political Economy Vol. 5, 1994, pp. 193-219 [coauthor: Viktor Vanberg].
• Rights, Innovations and Evolution. The Distributional Effects of Different Rights to Innovate, in: Review of Political Economy Vol. 5, 1993, pp. 427-452.

II. Current Working Papers (in referee process)

• Competition, Experimentation, and Legal Rules as Institutional Framework
• Optimal Sequential Investigation Rules in Competition Law [coauthors: Jürgen-Peter Kretschmer, Georg von Wangenheim]
• Microsoft, Refusal to License Intellectual Property Rights, and the Incentives Balance Test of the EU Commission [coauthor: Claudia Schmidt]
• Policy Innovation, Decentralised Experimentation, and Laboratory Federalism [coauthor: Nicole Saam]
• Market Share Thresholds and Herfindahl-Hirschman-Index (HHI) as Screening Instruments in Competition Law: A Theoretical Analysis [coauthors: Jürgen-Peter Kretschmer, Georg von Wangenheim]
• Assessment of Innovation Effects: An Analysis of US Merger Cases [coauthor: Benjamin R. Kern]

• Economic Approaches to Competition Law: Foundations and Limitations, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2011 [coeditors: Josef Drexl and Rupprecht Podszun].
• Jahrbuch Strategisches Kompetenz-Management, Bd. 4, „Ambidextrie“: Der unternehmerische Drahtseilakt zwischen Ressourcenexploration und –exploitation [Yearbook Strategic Competence Management, Vol. 4, Ambidexterity: The Entrepreneurial Tension Between Resource Exploration and Exploitation], Munich: Rainer Hampp 2010 [coeditor: Michael Stephan].
• 25 Jahre ressourcen- und kompetenzorientierte Forschung [25 Years Resource- and Competence-oriented Management], Wiesbaden: Gabler 2010 [coeditors: Michael Stephan, Tim Kessler, Michael Lindenfelder].
• Zentralität und Dezentralität von Regulierung in Europa [Centralisation and Decentralisation of Regulation in Europe], Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius 2007 [coeditor: Klaus Heine].
• Studien zur Evolutorischen Ökonomik [Contributions to Evolutionary Economics], Vol. IX, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2004.
• Party Autonomy and the Role of Information in the Internal Market, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 2001 [coeditors: Stefan Grundmann and Stephen Weatherill].
• Hayek, Friedrich A. von, Die Anmaßung von Wissen. Neue Freiburger Studien [The Pretence of Knowledge. New Freiburg Studies], Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1996 [a volume of the most important articles of Hayek since the late sixties].
• Evolutorischer Wettbewerb. Zu den theoretischen und institutionellen Grundlagen der Wettbewerbsordnung [Evolutionary Competition. Theoretical and Institutional Foundations of the Institutional Framework for Competition] (habilitation thesis, 385 pp.; 1994).
• Die Europäische Fusionskontrollpraxis und die Wettbewerbskonzeption der EG. Zwei Analysen zur Entwicklung des europäischen Wettbewerbsrechts [European Merger Control and the Concept of Competition of the EC. Two Analyses of the Development of European Competition Law], Bayreuth: P.C.O. 1994 (278 pp.).
• Evolutionäre Marktprozesse und Nachfragemacht. [Evolutionary Market Processes and Buying Power], Baden-Baden: Nomos 1989 (dissertation thesis, 624 pp.).

• EU State Aid Policy, Economic Approach, Bailouts, and Merger Policy: Two Comments, in: Basedow, Jürgen, und Wolfgang Wurmnest (eds.), Structure and Effects in European Competition Law, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International 2011, pp. 241-252.
• Ordnungs- und Konstitutionenökonomik: einige aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven ["Ordnungsökonomik" and Constitutional Economics: Some Perspectives of Future Research], in: Schüller, Alfred, and Stefan Voigt (eds.), Von der Ordnungstheorie zur Institutionenökonomik. Rückblick und Entwicklungsoptionen eines Marburger Forschungsprogramms, Stuttgart: Lucius& Lucius 2008, pp. 108-116.
• Measuring the Effectiveness and/or the Predictability of European Merger Control: Problems of an Event Study, in: Schmidtchen, Dieter, Albert, Max, and Stephan Voigt (eds.), The More Economic Approach to European Competition Law, Conference on New Political Economy 25, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007, pp. 267-276.
• Wettbewerbspolitik [Competition Policy], in: Bender, Dieter et al. (eds.), Vahlens Kompendium der Wirtschaftstheorie und Wirtschaftspolitik, Vol. 2,  9th ed., Munich: Vahlen 2007, pp. 369-434.
• Comment on: Kieninger, Eva-Maria: Aktuelle Entwicklungen des Wettbewerbs der Gesellschaftsrechte [Current Developments of Competition of Corporate Laws], in: Eger, Thomas, and Hans-Bernd Schäfer (eds.), Ökonomische Analyse der europäischen Zivilrechtsentwicklung - Beiträge zum X. Travemünder Symposium zur ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts [Economic Analysis of the European Development of Civil Law], Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007, pp. 203-212.
• Comment on: Waelbrock, Denis: Vertical Agreements: 4 Years of Liberalisation by Regulation 2790/99 after 40 Years of Legal (Block) Regulation, in: Ullrich, Hanns (ed.),  The Evolution of European Competition Law: Whose Regulation? Which Competition?, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham 2006, pp. 111-120.
• Comment on: Romano, Cesare P.R.: International Courts and Tribunals: Price, Financing and Output, in: Voigt, Stefan, Albert, Max, and Dieter Schmidtchen (eds.), International Conflict Resolution (Conference on New Political Economy 23), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2005, pp. 247-252.
• Module "Wettbewerbspolitik" [Competition Policy] of the internet-based education program for teachers "Ökonomische Bildung online. Wirtschaft in der Schule" (Bertelsmann Stiftung, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft etc.; finished: 2002; ca. 100 pp.).
• Bruno S. Frey: A Utopia? Government without Territorial Monopoly: Comment, in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics Vol. 157, 2001, pp. 180-186.
• German Market Process Theory, in: Boettke, Peter J. (ed.), The Edward Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar 1994, pp. 500-507.

• Wagner, Gerhard (ed.): The Common Frame of Reference: A View from Law & Economics, München: Sellier 2009, in: European Law Review (forthcoming 2012)
• Sara Borella: Migrationspolitik in Deutschland und der Europäischen Union. Eine konstitutionenökonomische Analyse der Wanderung von Arbeitskräften, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008, in: ORDO Vol. 61, 2010, pp. 432-435
• Francesco Parisi, Charles K. Rowley (eds.): The Origins of Law and Economics. Essays by the Founding Fathers. Cheltenham, Uk and Northampton, MA (Edward Elgar), 2005, in: Jahr-bücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Vol. 203/4, 2010, pp. 491-493.