This open access book provides answers to key open questions concerning competition policy in emerging economies, with a focus on South Eastern Europe. The contributions address two major issues. One is the design of competition policy and the national competition authorities that enforce it,...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Technology Standards and Competition in the Mobile Industry by Kirti Gupta -- Chapter 3. Standard Setting Organizations and Competition Laws: Lessons and Suggestions from the United States by Donald E. Knebel -- Chapter 4. FRAND Commitments and Royalties for...

Digitisation processes have – often through disruptive innovations – injected additional competition in many markets, be it online retailing, new transport platforms, electronic banking and brokerage, online travel agencies or new media formats. At the same time, a number of companies,...

The Banking Environment -- Alternative Perspectives on Bank Behavior -- The Industrial Economics of Banking -- The Economics of Banking Antitrust -- Bank Competition, Stability, and Regulation -- Economic Foundations of International Banking -- Capital Regulation, Bank Behavior, and Market...

This volume examines the controversy surrounding the use of competition law to combat excessive pricing. While high or monopolistic pricing is not regarded as an antitrust violation in the US, employing abuse of dominance provisions in competition laws to fight excessive pricing has gained...

The traditional boundaries between trade policy and competition policy are becoming fuzzier and less valid because firms increasingly compete at the same time in many different markets and in different ways. The following article examines a number of policy areas in which trade policy has...

Even after the Uruguay Round overhaul, existing Gatt rules leave certain competition-distorting policies and practices unchecked. For various reasons the holes in the Gatt rules cannot be filled by the unilateral application of national competition regulations. It is therefore necessary to...