pricing, introductory offers, and price wars. Such “competition for the market” or “life-cycle competition” can adequately … replace ordinary compatible competition, and can even be fiercer than compatible competition by weakening differentiation …. More often, however, incompatible competition not only involves direct efficiency losses but also softens competition and …

regulation increases total surplus suggesting that network neutrality regulation could be warranted even when some competition is …We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … regulation (requiring zero fees to content providers): there exist parameter ranges for which network neutrality regulation …

Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) that, from its theoretical … market competition, we expect fiercer competition after the uncovering. We asses the validity of the indicators by comparing … the indicated competition levels before and after the cartelswere uncovered and stopped. The Boone-Indicator is calculated …

In this chapter we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The chapter begins with … in ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The chapter then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust …

begins by characterizing the optimal regulation of a monopoly supplier that is better informed than the regulator about its … commitment powers are limited. The chapter then analyzes the design of practical policies, such as price cap regulation, that are …. Yardstick regulation, procedures for awarding monopoly franchises, and optimal industry structuring are analyzed. The chapter …

We correct and extend the results of Gans (2015) regarding the effects of net neutrality regulation on equilibrium …