This volume comprises scientific contributions in the context of the 5th annual conference of the European Association of Sports Economics (ESEA), which took place in September 2013 in Esbjerg, Denmark. It contains five articles on UEFA's financial fair play regulation in European football, written by internationally renowned sports economists like Stefan Szymanski, Joel Maxcy and Sean Hamil. Moreover, a further three chapters deal with football topics like the dismissal of coaches or competitive balance. Furthermore, the economics of sports events - the Olympics as well as local events - are analyzed by well-known scholars like Wladimir Andreff and Placido Rodriguez. Next to team sports, new developments of the economics of individual sports like cycling, ski-jumping and motor-racing are explored.

The globalization of market competition and business behaviour fosters globalization of cartels and monopolising mergers that can lead to abusive and predatory strategies. The globalization of competition therefore also demands an internationalization of competition policy. However, Oliver Budzinski is realistic in his assertion that supranational competition governance must be built upon the existing, predominantly national, regimes. The resulting multilevel system of antitrust institutions and authorities, he argues, is problematic for the horizontal and vertical allocation of competences. This book employs the economics of federalism to create an analytical framework which can be used for comparative analysis of stylised competence allocation rules. The result is a proposal for a sound international multilevel competition policy system that combines elements of both centralized and decentralized governance. This book provides an innovative and unique perspective on international competition policy and will be of interest to economists, legal scientists and competition authorities as well as academics and practitioners of international governance and international relations and politics.

Selten hat ein wettbewerbspolitischer Fall so viel Interesse und Kontroversen hervorgerufen wie der E-Book-Fall rund um Amazon, bei dem fuhrende Verlage und grosse Unternehmen wie Apple involviert sind. Doch dieser spiegelt nur eine von vielen unternehmerischen Vorgehensweisen Amazons wider. Der Kern dieses Werkes stellt die wettbewerbspolitischen Vorwurfe gegenuber Amazon systematisch dar und wurdigt diese auf der Basis oekonomisch-theoretischer UEberlegungen. Die Analysen offenbaren dabei die oekonomischen Besonderheiten von Onlinemarkten und berucksichtigen die wachsende oekonomische Bedeutung mehrseitiger Markte. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse geben eine Antwort auf die sich aus der aktuellen Medienbrisanz um Internetplattformen ergebende Frage, ob "Amazon as the Next Google" einzuordnen ist. Daruber hinaus bewertet die Autorin Ansatze zur Ausgestaltung einer wettbewerbspolitischen Regulierung von Internetplattformen wie den More Technological Approach oder die Implementierung einer eigenen Regulierungsbehoerde.