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The intersection of competition law and labor market has long been a controversial topic. As antitrust decisional practice shows a historical evolvement to a deeper scrutiny of anti competitive practices in the labor market, the recent developments indicate that it is no longer a debate that...
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of the “criminal charge” notion within the meaning of Article 6(1) ECHR. In the present EU jurisprudence on competition … of the position of fundamental rights was sealed by granting the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights of 2000 the binding … force by including this Charter into the EU primary law and by defining the basis for the EU accession to the ECHR (Article …
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This paper discusses the standard of proof in EU competition cases. It first strives to define the term "standard of …
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We analyze duopoly Bertrand competition under network effects. We consider both incompatible and compatible products. Our main result is that network effects create a fundamental conflict between the maximization of social welfare and consumer surplus whenever products are incompatible. While...
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We analyze market dynamics under Bertrand duopoly competition in industries with network effects and consumer switching costs. Consumers form installed bases, repeatedly buy the products, and differ with respect to their switching costs. Depending on the ratio of switching costs to network...
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This paper proposes a model for a certification market with an imperfect testing technology. Such a technology only assures that whenever two products are tested the higher quality product is more likely to pass than the lower quality one. When only one certifier with such testing technology is...
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Extensive research has been conducted on the economics of standards in the last three decades. To date, standard-setting studies emphasize a superior role of demand-side-driven technology diffusion; these contributions assume the evolution of a user-driven momentum and network externalities. We...
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The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI have gone understudied. We employ panel data reported by OECD nations over the 1995-2002 period to estimate the impact of ISO adoptions on country-pair economic relations. We find ISO diffusion to have no effect in developed nations, but to...
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