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to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust enforcement authorities like the Department of Justice and the Federal …
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awards achieves broadly the same effects as does tacit collusion. …
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We consider innovation incentives in markets where final goods comprise two strictly complementary components, one of which is monopolized. We focus on the case in which the complementary component is competitively supplied, and in which innovation is important. We explore ways in which the...
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The LoopCo Plan, which uses market mechanisms to promote competition, is the best approach to restructuring the telecommunications market, say its proponents, who object to the requirements and to-date implementation of the Telecommunications Act of l996. The local-loop's spin-off 's consumer...
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Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...
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We discuss issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the … application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in … which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects …
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Comment of Nicholas S. Economides on the Revised Proposed Final Judgment in United States v. Microsoft
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E-commerce may prove a double-edged sword for antitrust enforcement. While the internet massively increases the … potential size of the relevant market for any antitrust investigation, thereby reducing the need for antitrust activity, it also … opens firms up to protectionist uses of antitrust by foreign authorities using an economic effects rule for jurisdiction. An …
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antitrust intervention in the telecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of wireless technologies, we conclude by …
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This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity …. We find that treating antitrust across countries as an exogenous policy overestimates the impact of competition on …
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