Wolfgang Kerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Kerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerber |
| SIGNATURE | KERBER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1311-0383 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Property rights theory, bundles of rights on IoT data, and the EU Data Act
With the advance of smart IoT devices (Internet of Things) the amount of valuable data will increase dramatically. With its recently enacted Data Act (DA) the EU introduces new data access and sharing rights for the users of IoT devices. This article analyzes how the DA will change the bundle of rights on non-personal IoT data regarding who can control, access, use, share, and monetize this data. In a first step, we apply the property rights theo…
The German Facebook case
Can competition law consider effects on privacy, or should privacy concerns of data-collecting behaviour only be dealt with by data protection law? In this paper, we analyse the German Facebook case, in which the requirement of giving consent to the combination of personal data from different sources was prohibited as exploitative abuse by a dominant firm. We show, from an economic perspective, that due to the simultaneous existence of two market…
Exhaustion of Digital Goods
The »UsedSoft« decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) about the right of a buyer of a downloaded copy of a software to resell this copy triggered a controversial discussion about the applicability of the »exhaustion« rule (US: first-sale doctrine) to copyright-protected digital goods (as, e. g., also e-books). This paper offers, in a first step, a systematic analysis and assessment of economic reasonings that have been disc…
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Developing Two‐tiered Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law
Since the Centros ruling in 1999, Europe has evolved a two‐tiered system of corporate laws. This opens up the possibility of some horizontal regulatory competition between the corporate laws of the member states. Following a draft regulation on the European Private Company (SPE), an additional legal form tailored to the needs of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) is being proposed. We analyse whether such a supranational European legal for…
Zur Komplexität der Anwendung des ökonomischen Anreizparadigmas bei geistigen Eigentumsrechten. Ein wirtschaftspolitischer Analyserahmen
Economic incentive arguments are crucial for the justification of intellectual property rights. However, the relation between the incentives for innovators and creators on one hand and the necessity and design of intellectual property on the other hand is very complex. In this article a three-step analytical framework is presented from the perspective of economic policy. The three steps consist of an analysis of the extent of a market failure pro…
Policy Innovation, Decentralised Experimentation, and Laboratory Federalism
Decentralised experimentation and mutual learning of public policies is seen as one of the important advantages of federal systems (Oates: laboratory federalism). Based upon Hayekian ideas of the advantages of decentralised experimentation (as a discovery procedure), we analyse the long-term benefits of parallel experimentation in a federal system from an evolutionary economics perspective. We present a simulation model in which the lower-level j…
Jahre ressourcen- und kompetenzorientierte Forschung
Policy learning in Europe
This paper analyses the potential of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) and of laboratory federalism for policy innovation and learning in a multi-level system of jurisdictions. Our analysis shows that both can be seen as institutions that establish processes of generating and spreading new knowledge about appropriate public policies. However, the respective learning mechanisms are very different: in laboratory federalism learning takes place…
Megafusionen, Wettbewerb und Globalisierung
A Utopia? Government Without Territorial Monopoly
A Utopia? Government Without Territorial Monopoly
The rise and fall of the German miracle
The fast recovery of Germany's economy after World War II the so-called German miracle can be explained by the market-oriented economic policies pursued in the 1950s, based upon the ideas of Ordoliberalism. The slowing growth rates and increasing economic difficulties since the 1970s seem to have resulted from the extension of interventionist and redistributionist policies beyond those sanctioned by Ordoliberalism. The roots of the German economi…
Die Anmaßung von Wissen
(1899-1992) 1918-23 Studium der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften in Wien; 1921 Dr. jur.; 1923 Dr. rer. pol.; 1929 Privatdozent an der Universität Wien; 1931-50 Tooke Professor of Economic Science and Statistics, London School of Economics; 1950-62 Professor of Social and Moral Science, University of Chicago; 1962-68 Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau.
Institutional competition among jurisdictions
Some notes on the distributional effects of different rights to innovate
Rights, innovations and evolution. The distributional effects of different rights to innovate
In contrast to the prevailing ‘efficiency’ approach to law and economics, a different perspective is presented, which is based upon German approaches to law and economics and evolutionary market processes theory. Since the main characteristic of evolutionary market processes is the endogenous creation and spreading of innovations, it is shown in a two-agent model that the unanticipated creation of innovations can lead to positive and/or negative …
Policy learning in Europe
This paper analyses the potential of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) and of laboratory federalism for policy innovation and learning in a multi-level system of jurisdictions. Our analysis shows that both can be seen as institutions that establish processes of generating and spreading new knowledge about appropriate public policies. However, the respective learning mechanisms are very different: in laboratory federalism learning takes place…
Institutional competition among jurisdictions
Rights, innovations and evolution. The distributional effects of different rights to innovate
In contrast to the prevailing ‘efficiency’ approach to law and economics, a different perspective is presented, which is based upon German approaches to law and economics and evolutionary market processes theory. Since the main characteristic of evolutionary market processes is the endogenous creation and spreading of innovations, it is shown in a two-agent model that the unanticipated creation of innovations can lead to positive and/or negative …
Developing Two‐tiered Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law
Since the Centros ruling in 1999, Europe has evolved a two‐tiered system of corporate laws. This opens up the possibility of some horizontal regulatory competition between the corporate laws of the member states. Following a draft regulation on the European Private Company (SPE), an additional legal form tailored to the needs of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) is being proposed. We analyse whether such a supranational European legal for…
The rise and fall of the German miracle
The fast recovery of Germany's economy after World War II the so-called German miracle can be explained by the market-oriented economic policies pursued in the 1950s, based upon the ideas of Ordoliberalism. The slowing growth rates and increasing economic difficulties since the 1970s seem to have resulted from the extension of interventionist and redistributionist policies beyond those sanctioned by Ordoliberalism. The roots of the German economi…
Rights, innovations and evolution. The distributional effects of different rights to innovate
In contrast to the prevailing ‘efficiency’ approach to law and economics, a different perspective is presented, which is based upon German approaches to law and economics and evolutionary market processes theory. Since the main characteristic of evolutionary market processes is the endogenous creation and spreading of innovations, it is shown in a two-agent model that the unanticipated creation of innovations can lead to positive and/or negative …
Institutional competition among jurisdictions
Some notes on the distributional effects of different rights to innovate
Die Anmaßung von Wissen
(1899-1992) 1918-23 Studium der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften in Wien; 1921 Dr. jur.; 1923 Dr. rer. pol.; 1929 Privatdozent an der Universität Wien; 1931-50 Tooke Professor of Economic Science and Statistics, London School of Economics; 1950-62 Professor of Social and Moral Science, University of Chicago; 1962-68 Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau.
The rise and fall of the German miracle
The fast recovery of Germany's economy after World War II the so-called German miracle can be explained by the market-oriented economic policies pursued in the 1950s, based upon the ideas of Ordoliberalism. The slowing growth rates and increasing economic difficulties since the 1970s seem to have resulted from the extension of interventionist and redistributionist policies beyond those sanctioned by Ordoliberalism. The roots of the German economi…
A Utopia? Government Without Territorial Monopoly
A Utopia? Government Without Territorial Monopoly
Megafusionen, Wettbewerb und Globalisierung
Policy learning in Europe
This paper analyses the potential of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) and of laboratory federalism for policy innovation and learning in a multi-level system of jurisdictions. Our analysis shows that both can be seen as institutions that establish processes of generating and spreading new knowledge about appropriate public policies. However, the respective learning mechanisms are very different: in laboratory federalism learning takes place…
Jahre ressourcen- und kompetenzorientierte Forschung
Zur Komplexität der Anwendung des ökonomischen Anreizparadigmas bei geistigen Eigentumsrechten. Ein wirtschaftspolitischer Analyserahmen
Economic incentive arguments are crucial for the justification of intellectual property rights. However, the relation between the incentives for innovators and creators on one hand and the necessity and design of intellectual property on the other hand is very complex. In this article a three-step analytical framework is presented from the perspective of economic policy. The three steps consist of an analysis of the extent of a market failure pro…
Policy Innovation, Decentralised Experimentation, and Laboratory Federalism
Decentralised experimentation and mutual learning of public policies is seen as one of the important advantages of federal systems (Oates: laboratory federalism). Based upon Hayekian ideas of the advantages of decentralised experimentation (as a discovery procedure), we analyse the long-term benefits of parallel experimentation in a federal system from an evolutionary economics perspective. We present a simulation model in which the lower-level j…
Developing Two‐tiered Regulatory Competition in EU Corporate Law
Since the Centros ruling in 1999, Europe has evolved a two‐tiered system of corporate laws. This opens up the possibility of some horizontal regulatory competition between the corporate laws of the member states. Following a draft regulation on the European Private Company (SPE), an additional legal form tailored to the needs of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) is being proposed. We analyse whether such a supranational European legal for…
Exhaustion of Digital Goods
The »UsedSoft« decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) about the right of a buyer of a downloaded copy of a software to resell this copy triggered a controversial discussion about the applicability of the »exhaustion« rule (US: first-sale doctrine) to copyright-protected digital goods (as, e. g., also e-books). This paper offers, in a first step, a systematic analysis and assessment of economic reasonings that have been disc…
Ordo
The German Facebook case
Can competition law consider effects on privacy, or should privacy concerns of data-collecting behaviour only be dealt with by data protection law? In this paper, we analyse the German Facebook case, in which the requirement of giving consent to the combination of personal data from different sources was prohibited as exploitative abuse by a dominant firm. We show, from an economic perspective, that due to the simultaneous existence of two market…
Property rights theory, bundles of rights on IoT data, and the EU Data Act
With the advance of smart IoT devices (Internet of Things) the amount of valuable data will increase dramatically. With its recently enacted Data Act (DA) the EU introduces new data access and sharing rights for the users of IoT devices. This article analyzes how the DA will change the bundle of rights on non-personal IoT data regarding who can control, access, use, share, and monetize this data. In a first step, we apply the property rights theo…
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