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on European Union (EU) law. A related purpose of the paper is to challenge the dominant view that merger control is the …
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The main objective of this article is to shed light on the compatibility of price discrimination with EC competition law. We offer an analytical framework which distinguishes between different categories of price discrimination depending on their effects on competition. Our framework suggests...
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In European Union ("EU") competition law, the supply policy of a dominant input provider can be deemed unlawful, if his … has since then been overruled by a subsequent judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU ("CJEU") (III). Finally, we …
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This paper explores the possibility of remedial intervention against the credit rating oligopoly under the competition rules. It is divided in six parts. Following an introduction, Part II provides an overview of the credit rating industry. Part III demonstrates that there is a possible economic...
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economic case supporting this approach remains to be made. To this end, it shows that the position of the EU Courts, and more … generally of the EU institutions, is far from unquestionable in light of the relevant economic literature …
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The first prong of Article 82 of the EC Treaty, which prohibits abuses of a dominant position, requires, prior to the identification of abusive behaviour, evidence that the firm under scrutiny enjoys a dominant position. Surprisingly, this issue seems to be sometimes overlooked. Enforcers,...
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Price discrimination is one of the most complex areas of EC competition law. There are several reasons for this. First, the concept of price discrimination covers many different practices (discounts and rebates, tying, selective price cuts, discriminatory input prices set by...
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The main objective of this paper is thus to examine the state of adoption and implementation of competition rules in the 12 Mediterranean countries (the "Euromed countries") engaged in association agreements with the EC in the framework of the Barcelona Declaration of November 1995. Indeed,...
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