Festschrift zu Ehren von Christian Kirchner

This Festschrift for Christian Kirchner should honor an exceptional teacher and researcher on his 70th birthday who made a vital contribution to the development of modern business law, in particular to competition law and regulatory law, during the course of his career, which encompassed law as well as economics. After his sudden death this volume is dedicated to his memory. Numerous well-known authors from Germany as well as Switzerland, the USA and Asia have contributed to this Festschrift as friends, companions, students and colleagues. The articles deal with problems related to the pivotal areas in which Christian Kirchner worked. They focus on business and corporate law, cartel law, law and economics of regulation as well as institutional economics. Most of them have a European or an international connection, and they are often written from an economic standpoint.