Broadband over CATV networks is flourishing in the EU and in some Member States it even has already made significant impact on the retail broadband market. Our article aims to provide an overview of the regulatory treatment of broadband over CATV under the electronic communications regulatory...

Based on the relevant case law produced at the European level, this article attempts to examine the three controversial aspects of price squeeze: (i) the identities of the infringer, (ii) the nature of the infringement (i.e. stand-alone or value-added), and (iii) the approach for the imputation test

Due to the different views in economics the prohibition of excessive prices is among the most controversial subjects within EU competition law. This article aims to shed some light on this concept. In the following, it first identifies the exceptional circumstances that may justify antitrust...

This article explores the abusive nature of price squeeze through investigating why a dominant undertaking subject to a price squeeze liability cannot be allowed to benefit from its competition advantages over vertical integration. As such a result, price squeeze obliges a dominant undertaking...

Superior bargaining power demonstrates a domain where practice precedes theory. Although there have been legal practice on superior bargaining power to some extent across the globe for more than eight decades, debates have never rested on whether and how superior bargaining power should be...

The scope of the article is to analyse to what extent some traditional tools developed in the area of tax and competition law for big companies can be applied to SME clusters in order to promote their development. The focus of the research, in particular, will be, on one side, on group taxation...

The concept of significant market power (SMP) is enshrined by the European regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services to the extent to which national regulatory authorities (NRAs) in most circumstances can only regulate undertakings with SMP. According to this...

The major challenge for the economic reform in Macau is to achieve a proliferated development in other economic sectors than gambling. The liberalization of the telecommunications sector then becomes the key within such a process due to its economic significance. This article observes that the...

The compulsory notifications for mergers transactions under the framework of antitrust law aims to remedy anti-competitive harm by blocking or conditionally approving mergers ex ante in conjunction with the deterrence effects. However, such a mechanism brings prominent costs in addition to the...

This essay reviews the Qualcomm decision made by the NDRC in 2015, a case about abusing standard essential patents. It observes that this decision essentially assessed conduct of abusing dominant positions under the framework of per se illegal. As a result, it, though possibly aiming to protect...