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Manfred Kops:

Combating Media Concentration in a Globalising World Economy,

Köln, im Oktober 1999, ISBN 3-934156-08-8

40 S., Schutzgebühr 2,50 €

 
Table of Contents:

1. Forms and Causes of Concentration in the Television Sector
1.1. Forms of Concentration in the Television Sector
1.2. Causes of Concentration in the Television Sector
1.3. Foreseeable Increase of Concentration in the Television Sector

2. Advantages and Disadvantages of National Concentration Restrictions
2.1. Advantages of National Concentration Restrictions
2.2. The National Concentration Restrictions of German Media Law
2.3. Disadvantages of National Concentration Restrictions
2.4. The Need to Weigh up the Advantages and Disadvantages of National Concentration Restrictions

3. National Concentration Restrictions and Global Media Markets
3.1. The Fixing of National Concentration Restrictions Assuming Spatial External Effects
3.2. External Effects as an Explanation for Waiving Internationally Desirable National Concentration Restrictions
3.3. The Necessary Replacement of National by Supranational Concentration Restrictions
3.4. The Optimal Size of the Regime that Determines the Intensity of the Supranational Concentration Restriction

4. Summary