We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 … competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the industries with a naturally high entry rate. Rigid entry regulations are … manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper …

has developed within both disciplines with respect to regulation – for an analysis of the credit rating industry …

industry-wide competition and consumer welfare are antitrust law and regulation. This is no less true in the professional … such contracts have on competition and overall consumer welfare. The two legal mechanisms that traditionally protect … sports and telecast industries. The collision of these two industries has resulted in a labyrinth of regulation and, arguably …

competition. The European Commission, in trying to improve the wholesale roaming market, caused the introduction of a system of … non-discriminatory prices that were not subject to competition but instead to low levels of price transparency and with … partners, demonstrating little evidence of competition. Analyses of the wholesale markets by national regulators revealed …

markets and the network effects of the Internet, which could lead to strategic actions in Internet interconnection agreements …. By separating the analysis of the cost characteristics of the network elements making up the Internet from the issue of …

The future of Germanys electricity regulation is still an open question. This paper deals with alternative …