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This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and general competition law, especially concerning energy markets and the road to Internal Market objective.We firstly present Trinko case, in order to focus on two crucial and...
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In this paper we will examine the issue of ownership unbundling and forced divestiture remedies imposed in a series of recent competition law cases of the energy market - examined in other papers - in relation to the possible existence of a series of legal obstacles. These energy market...
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This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a model for two countries in which each country has two operators that compete in the retail market for access services and also in the wholesale market for roaming. We first derive...
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The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the Rest of the World as a control group. We find large and...
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Within the framework of the Digital Single Market, the European Commission is paving the way for a Single Market in the European mobile telecommunications services by, among others, studying how to reduce regulation heterogeneity in the 27 fragmented national markets. This article aims to...
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International mobile roaming has been subject to market interventions since the 1990s, first requiring operators to be …
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We develop a model of international roaming in which mobile network operators (MNOs) compete both on the wholesale … services provided by foreign MNOs. We show that in absence of international alliances and capacity restrictions, competition … international alliances in which members mutually provide roaming services at inefficiently high wholesale prices. Alliances serve …
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We develop a model of international roaming in which mobile network operators (MNOs) compete both on the wholesale … services provided by foreign MNOs. We show that in absence of international alliances and capacity restrictions, competition … international alliances in which members mutually provide roaming services at inefficiently high wholesale prices. Alliances serve …
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International mobile roaming cartel agreements prompted the EU to intervene, firstly encompassing competition law …
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