The Discussion Paper examines the regulation of the air transport sector from the perspective of competition law … competition law level …

Whereas the EU's internal market rules govern market access and public intervention, its competition rules are … concerned with the market conduct of private parties. When do the competition rules apply to healthcare? In principle the scope … for application of the competition rules to the healthcare sector is largely defined by the Member States themselves. This …

competition in the grocery trade. Market investigations of the sector have been launched in several Member States, and there have … practitioners have been under pressure to find out in what ways competition rules may be used to limit these practices. The goal of … this paper is to give a comprehensive overview of the competition law issues that might arise in the context of private …

paper examines this tension over the past 10 years since modernisation of EU competition law. It looks at three types of … relevant product market, facilitating a finding of dominance. Some national competition authorities have followed in the …

the ongoing discussion on competition policy and innovation. It also replies to some claims made by Ahlborn and Evans in …

This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory … competition law since the early 1990s have strengthened competitive forces in many sectors of the economy, and proposed amendments … have helped vigorous competition to develop in most segments, but there remain problems in pricing of access to the local …

This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …

Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

policies, a number of challenges remain. Although there are few sectors of the economy from which competition policy and law … competition enforcement. Intellectual property rights create special challenges for competition policy and some problems have … setbacks, reflecting both the difficulties in ensuring competition in such industries and policy mistakes. …