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Abuse of dominance and antitrust enforcement in the German electricity market

Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian; Böckers, Veit - 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...

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Merger policy in digital markets : an ex-post assessment

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first discuss the most crucial features of digital markets such as network effects, multi-sidedness, big data, and rapid innovation that create important challenges for competition...

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Market concentration in Europe : evidence from antitrust markets

Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021 - This draft: January 20, 2021

many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market …

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Effective European antitrust : does EC merger policy generate deterrence?

Clougherty, Joseph A.; Duso, Tomaso; Lee, Miyu; … - 2015

We estimate the deterrence effects of European Commission (EC) merger policy instruments over the 1990-2009 period. Our empirical results suggest that phase-1 remedies uniquely generate robust deterrence as – unlike phase-1 withdrawals, phase-2 remedies, and preventions – phase-1 remedies...

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The impact of competition policy enforcement on the functioning of EU energy markets

Duso, Tomaso; Seldeslachts, Jo; Szücs, Florian - 2017

We investigate the impact of competition policy enforcement on the functioning of European energy markets, and how sectoral regulation influences these outcomes. For this purpose, we compile a new dataset on the European Commission’s (EC) and EU member states’ competition policy decisions,...

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Returns to data : evidence from web tracking

Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024

Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing...

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25 years of European merger control

Affeldt, Pauline; Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian - 2019

We study the evolution of the EC’s merger decision procedure over the first 25 years of European competition policy. Using a novel dataset constructed at the level of the relevant markets and containing all merger cases over the 1990-2014 period, we evaluate how consistently arguments related...

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Representing GASPEC with the World Gas Model

Egging, Ruud; Holz, Franziska; Hirschhausen, Christian … - 2008

countries, sometimes called GASPEC. We use the World Gas Model, a dynamic, strategic representation of world gas production … North America would be affected more than other parts of the world. Lastly, the vulnerability of gas importers worldwide on … ; trade ; cartel ; collusion ; World Gas Model …

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The world gas market in 2030 : development scenarios using the world gas model

Huppmann, Daniel; Egging, Ruud; Holz, Franziska; … - 2009

In this paper, we discuss potential developments of the world natural gas industry at the horizon of 2030. We use the … World Gas Model (WGM), a dynamic, strategic representation of world natural gas production, trade, and consumption between … 2005 and 2030. We specify a "base case" which defines the business-as-usual assumptions based on forecasts of the world …

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The World Gas Model : a multi-period mixed complementarity model for the global natural gas market

Egging, Ruud; Holz, Franziska; Gabriel, Steven A. - 2009

We provide the description and illustrative results of the World Gas Model, a multi-period complementarity model for … world wide natural gas production and consumption. We also include a detailed representation of cross-border natural gas …

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