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Merger remedies in oligopoly under a consumer welfare standard
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2015
We analyze the welfare effects of structural remedies on merger activity in a Cournot oligopoly if the antitrust agency applies a consumer surplus standard. We derive conditions such that otherwise price-increasing mergers become externality-free by the use of remedial divestitures. In this...
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Consumer response to energy labels : insights from choice experiments
Heinzle, Stefanie Lena - 2012
Märkte für energieeffiziente Güter zeichnen sich typischerweise durch Informationsasymmetrien aus. Zertifizierte Öko-Labels einer unabhängigen Drittpartei stellen ein geeignetes Instrument dar, um solche Informationsasymmetrien am Markt zu überwinden und Vertrauen in die Gültigkeit von...
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Juridification patterns for social regulation and the WTO : a theoretical framework
Joerges, Christian - 2005
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A Theoretical Case for Standardized Vesting Documents
Pomeroy, Chad - 2012
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'Free Movement of Goods and Environmental Product Standards'
de Sadeleer, Nicolas Michel - 2017
Given that at the core of the EU integration process lies the internal market which is underpinned by free movement … movement of goods within the single market and national environmental product standards could be reconciled in the EU …
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The 'Borat' Problem in Contract Law : Fraud, Assent, and Standard Forms
Korobkin, Russell B. - 2012
Two parties reach an oral agreement. The first then presents a standard-form contract, which the second signs without reading, or without reading carefully. When the second party later objects that the first did not perform according to the oral representations, the first party points out that...
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Assessing the Link between Standard Setting and Market Power
Layne-Farrar, Anne; Padilla, Jorge - 2010
Some policymakers, courts, and academics have expressed concerns that when a firm’s patents are incorporated into a standard, the inclusion can create market power for the patent holders that can then be abused when the standard is commercialized. This paper offers a critical assessment of...
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IT-APAs - Vertical Harmonization of Transfer - Pricing Standards
Ainsworth, Richard Thompson - 2019
The World Customs Organization (WCO) and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have begun considering the harmonization of transfer pricing norms among income tax, customs and VAT regimes. Two conferences have been organized in May of 2006 and 2007. These conferences...
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EU Constitutional Standards of Democracy in Differentiated Integration
Patrin, Maria; Curtin, Deirdre - 2021
Differentiated integration has becomes a pervasive feature of the EU legal and political reality. It happens when legal … rules are not uniformly valid across the EU Member States. This report explores to what extent regimes of differentiated … integration are compatible with EU constitutional standards of democracy. Increasing recourse to differentiated integration in the …
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Economic Effects of Standard Harmonization between Technologically Asymmetric Countries
Ryu, Han Eol - 2022
Since the fostering of trade liberalization in the 1990s, conventional trade barriers, such as tariffs, have been dropping steadily worldwide. Under the WTO regime, member countries are unable to impose higher tariff rates than the bound rates, and the effective tariff rates have been decreasing...
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