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Does Envelopment Through Data Advantage Call for New Regulation?

Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2021

commentators have focused on the anticompetitive potential of envelopment, and some have argued for regulation of platforms because … of that concern. These calls for regulation are not supported by robust formal analysis or comprehensive empirical …

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Evaluating the Impact of Price Caps - Evidence from the European Roam-Like-At-Home Regulation

Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verzillo, Stefano; … - 2021

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 … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …

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Impact of Roaming Regulation on Revenues and Prices of Mobile Operators in the EU

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Munoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021

We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator’s revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation …

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25 Years of European Merger Control

Affeldt, Pauline - 2020

We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the 1990-2014 period, we evaluate how consistently...

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Evidence Production in Merger Control : The Role of Remedies

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021

We analyze evidence production in merger control as a delegation problem in an inquisitorial competition policy system. The antitrust agency’s incentives to produce evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal depend critically on its action set. Allowing for a compromising remedy solution...

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Market Concentration in Europe : Evidence from Antitrust Markets

Affeldt, Pauline; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021

An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...

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Assessing EU Merger Control Through Compensating Efficiencies

Affeldt, Pauline; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus Peter; … - 2021

Worldwide, the overwhelming majority of large horizontal mergers are cleared by antitrust authorities unconditionally. The presumption seems to be that efficiencies from these mergers are sizeable. We calculate the compensating efficiencies that would prevent a merger from harming consumers for...

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Legal Uncertainty as a Welfare Enhancing Screen

Lang, Matthias - 2016

Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in opposite directions. The probability of conviction...

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What actually happens to EU directives in the member states?: A cross-country cross-sector view on national transposition instruments

Treutlein, Daniela - 2007

This study empirically investigates the transposition patterns of EU directives in all 15 member states and in six major sectors of the economy with a view on analysing the political-economic reasons behind sector and national differences in the legal transposition instruments used. In...

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Supplier Encroachment with Mutual Outsourcing

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2023

We examine the incentives and implications of supplier encroachment, when final good produc-tion requires the use of multiple complementary inputs and the entry of a supplier into the final good market gives rise to mutual outsourcing of inputs between the encroaching supplier and the incumbent....

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