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Ministererlaubnis für Kartellfälle : Kooperation im Sinne des Gemeinwohls?
Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2020
Mit der Umsetzung der 7. Novelle des Gesetzes gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen (GWB) wurde im Jahr 2005 die Ausnahmeregelung des sog. Ministerkartells nach § 8 GWB ersatzlos gestrichen. Ähnlich dem noch bestehenden Instrument der Ministererlaubnis für Fusionen nach § 42 GWB konnte bis dahin...
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Wettbewerb als Hypothesentest : Implikationen für die moderne Wettbewerbspolitik?
Budzinski, Oliver - 2024
the antitrust discourse. The current competition and antitrust policy topics that are addressed include the as …-efficient-competitor-test in abuse control, the regulation of systemic market power in digital ecosystems, antitrust interventions based on …
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Buying Competition : Developing Competition Regimes Through a WTO-Compliant Generalised System of Preferences
Wardhaugh, Bruce - 2016
There is a well-recognised link among trade, trade liberalisation, an effective competition regime and development. A common view to the promotion of development of Least Developed Countries is to assist their economic growth through trade-facilitating measures. The trade liberalisation regime...
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Export Orientation and Domestic Merger Policy : Theory and Some Empirical Evidence
Clougherty, Joseph A. - 2005
The recent 'open-economy industrial organization' literature generally finds export-orientation to enhance the weight of post-merger international competitive gains; thereby, favoring lenient domestic merger policy. We observe, however, that mergers seldom generate the 'significant synergies'...
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Trade is Good for Competition, but Competition is Great for Trade
Sacher, Seth B. - 2016
It may seem obvious that good trade policy can promote competition. That is, by opening up a domestic economy to increased trade, additional competitive pressures may be placed on domestic producers, thereby decreasing domestic market power and improving industry performance in the form of lower...
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State-Created Barriers to Exit? The Example of the Acquisition of Alstom by General Electric
Petit, Nicolas - 2020
are increasingly vocal. Moreover, our analysis may have implications for antitrust policy. As much as entry barriers …, barriers to exit prevent the emergence of competitive markets and are thus a concern for antitrust agencies. Moreover, State … interference with M&A risk undermining the efficacy of merger control systems, in depriving the antitrust agencies' of the ability …
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Fertilizer Fuels Food Prices : Identification Through the Oil-Gas Spread
Gnutzmann, Hinnerk - 2016
Since the 2008 Food Crisis, the link between agriculture and energy has become contentious. Agriculture consumes energy both directly, through oil products, and indirectly, through fertilizer. Since fertilizer cost depends on natural gas prices, we exploit variations in the oil/gas spread to...
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The Patent System and Climate Change
Sarnoff, Joshua D. - 2013
The amount of greenhouse gas emissions and consequent climate changes and social responses will depend substantially upon the rapid development and widespread dissemination of a wide variety of new mitigation and adaptation technologies. The international approach adopted by the UN Framework...
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Trade and Competition Policy in the Developing World : Is There a Role for the WTO?
Gifford, Daniel J.; Kudrle, Robert T. - 2014
This paper considers the possibilities that the member states of the WTO would adopt some kind of antitrust provision …
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Order without (Enforceable) Law : Why Countries Enter into Non-Enforceable Competition Policy Chapters in Free Trade Agreements
Sokol, D. Daniel - 2017
PTAs include a chapter on antitrust/competition policy. Until now, the effectiveness of such chapters has remained … unanswered. This article undertakes the first empirical analysis of Latin American antitrust/competition policy chapters in PTAs … article provides an overview of the process of liberalization in Latin America. It then describes how domestic antitrust fits …
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