market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less … effective in markets driven by network effects unless it is combined with a proper (ex-ante) regulatory framework. Antitrust … tools should focus on value creation and its distribution before focusing on competition. The scope of regulatory …

the internet ecosystem of content creators and the digital advertising market. This paper outlines some early antitrust … competition authorities should adopt (section 4). It finds that search and answer engines complement and compete with each other …. While the answer-engine market is still at an early stage of development, it already raises some competition issues in …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … regulation on the output of innovation activity, as proxied by patents, thus providing support in favor of the "weak" PH in line …

markets can make the transition more efficient; 3. In some areas, a too-narrow focus on competition can be detrimental, and … three levels of intervention: 1) competition rules and enforcement should be adjusted to meet the new challenges of the … benefits of competition for efficient resource allocation in the transition. Institutions should not focus solely on static …

are likely in the near future. -- banks ; comparative political economy ; financial regulation ; microprudential policy …