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Roson, Roberto - In: Review of Network Economics 4 (2005) 2, pp. 142-160

A recent literature, dealing with special markets characterized by bilateral network externalities, is summarized and critically assessed. Specific features of these markets, in terms of pricing principles and externalities, are discussed first. Afterwards, several issues related to competition...

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Competition Policy in the Philippine Downstream Oil Industry

U, Peter Lee - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2000

The Philippine downstream petroleum industry underwent monumental change with the passage of RA 8180, the original Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act. This paper surveys the industry developments before and after deregulation and analyzes the consistency of the Supreme Court decision with...

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To B or Not To B: A Welfare Analysis of Breaking Up Monopolies in an Endogenous Growth Model

Xie, Danyang - EconWPA - 2002

This paper studies the welfare consequences of a government regulation that forces a patented equipment to be supplied by a number of independent producers. On the one hand, such a regulation hurts the value of a patent and therefore reduces activities in the R&D sector. On the other hand, the...

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Integrating Competition Policy and Innovation Policy: The Case of R&D Cooperation

Graevenitz, Georg von - EconWPA - 2005

This paper considers the integration of competition policy and innovation policy in the context of R&D cooperation. An explicit comparison of the welfare losses under ex-ante and ex-post R&D cooperation reveals differing incentives to undertake R&D in both regimes. The strength of these...

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Competition and regulation in European retail payment systems

Kemppainen, Kari - EconWPA - 2004

In this study, the interaction between the competition-cooperation nexus and regulation in retail payment systems is analysed by applying the main lessons from the theory of network industries. This is justifiable on the grounds that the payment systems industry inherently has many...

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Extension of the preliminary rulings procedure outside the scope of Community law: The Dzodzi line of cases

Kaleda, Saulius Lukas - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 4 (2000) 09

The Dzodzi line of cases evidence that the functioning of the preliminary rulings procedure under Article 234 EC is not restricted to the scope of Community law, but extends also to the cases governed by national law referring to certain Community provision or concept. Most controversially in...

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Revisiting Modernisation: the European Commission, Policy Change and the Reform of EC Competition Policy

Kassim, Hussein; Wright, Kathryn - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - 2007

The modernisation of EC antitrust rules timed to coincide with the 2004 enlargement of the European Union is widely recognised as an historic and revolutionary reform. According to the dominant view that has emerged in both law and political science, the change is to be explained in terms of the...

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Regulatory Reform: Economic Analysis and British Experience

Armstrong, Mark; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John - The MIT Press

Regulatory reform had its beginnings in the United States in the 1970s, and today it is taking place around the globe. One of the central questions for industrial policy is how to regulate firms with market power. Regulatory Reform tackles this important policy issue in two parts: it describes...

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Fines, Leniency and Rewards in Antitrust: an Experiment

Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloé; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments....

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Eine bessere Wettbewerbspolitik steigert das Produktivitätswachstum merklich

Duso, Tomaso - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 29, pp. 687-697

) of 4.5 percent. Dass zwischen der Qualität der Wettbewerbspolitik und dem Produktivitätswachstum eines Landes ein … entwickelt, das sie Güte der Wettbewerbspolitik messbar macht und es ermöglicht, die Auswirkungen der Wettbewerbspolitik auf das … Produktivitätswachstum zu beobachten. Die Studie zeigt: Verbessert sich die Wettbewerbspolitik gemessen an den hier genutzten Indikatoren um …

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