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Regulation and Barriers to Trade in Telecommunications Services in the European Union
Cave, Martin E. - 2009
Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data …-processing to be performed anywhere in the world. They thus become tradable and subject to the laws of comparative advantage. A good … to create a level playing field between the country's former telecommunications monopolist and foreign competitors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158458
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Multi-Market Collusion with Demand Linkages and Antitrust Enforcement
Choi, Jay Pil - 2009
This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160219
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International Antitrust Enforcement and Multi-Market Contact
Choi, Jay Pil - 2009
This paper analyzes international antitrust enforcement when multinational firms operate in several markets with antitrust authorities in each market. We are concerned with how the sustainability of collusion in one local market is affected by the existence of collusion in other markets when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764270
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The Economics of Pending Patents
Koenen, Johannes - 2015
We provide a treatment of a number of questions pertaining to pending patents – a subject that has so-far mainly been discussed en-passant in the existing literature. We present the underlying institutional and legal framework that governs pending patents and some basic facts related to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037442
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Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation
Choi, Jay Pil - 2010
In this paper we analyze cartel formation and self-reporting incentives when firms operate in several geographical markets and face antitrust enforcement in different jurisdictions. We are concerned with the effectiveness of leniency programs and the benefits of international antitrust...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144908
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Heterogeneous Merger Impacts on Competitive Outcomes
Siebert, Ralph - 2017
Mergers realize heterogeneous competitive effects on profits, production, and prices. To date, it is unclear whether differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger studies conventionally assume that, conditional on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948252
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of 'dirty' goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315867
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Abuse of Dominance and Antitrust Enforcement in the German Electricity Market
Duso, Tomaso - 2017
In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944881
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Competition in the International Niobium Market : An Econometric Study
Silveira, Jailison W. - 2017
Niobium is a highly strategic mineral, in which Brazil holds almost all of the world's reserves followed by Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942003
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
Falck, Oliver - 2010
effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142145