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The analysis of coordinated effects in EU merger control: where do we stand after Sony/BMG and Impala?
Aigner, Gisela; Budzinski, Oliver; Christiansen, Arndt - 2007
The recent Impala Judgment by the CFI on the Sony/BMG Decision by the Commission represents the most important ruling on collective dominance since Airtours. We review both the Decision and the Judgment and derive implications for the institutional and substantive development of EU Merger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300234
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The analysis of coordinated effects in EU merger control: where do we stand after Sony/BMG and Impala?
Aigner, Gisela; Budzinski, Oliver; Christiansen, Arndt - 2006
The recent Impala Judgment by the CFI on the Sony/BMG Decision by the Commission represents the most important ruling on collective dominance since Airtours. We review both the Decision and the Judgment and derive implications for the institutional and substantive development of EU Merger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265712
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Liberalization of the Postal Service Market in Europe: Entry with Universal Service and Partial Coverage
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - 2008
In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries we expect that the incumbent operators anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform pricing. The market for postal service exhibits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298704
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The Oracle/PeopleSoft case: unilateral effects, simulation models and econometrics in contemporary merger control
Budzinski, Oliver; Christiansen, Arndt - 2007
An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300228
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Demand growth, entry and collusion sustainability
Capuano, Carlo - 2002
of sustainability of collusion. For the European Commission this assumption is seen as a factor that disincentives … collusion and pushes to a competitive behavior. This fact maybe is not so obvious and I have shown that what is important is the … implement collusion before and after entry as a subgames perfect equilibrium. The final conclusion is that demand growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335729
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The Effects of Leniency on Maximal Cartel Pricing
Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Wen, Quan - 2009
collusion. We introduce cartel culture that describes how likely cartels persist after each conviction. Our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326004
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Tracing the Base: A Topographic Test for Collusive Basing-Point Pricing
Bos, Iwan; Schinkel, Maarten Pieter - 2009
between competitive and collusive basing-point pricing. We define a measure for the likelihood of collusion that can be used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326071
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Softwarestandards: Zwangslizenzen keine Patentlösung
Kooths, Stefan; Rühmkorf, Ronald - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 4, pp. 68-75
Das reibungslose Zusammenarbeiten von Programmen unterschiedlicher Hersteller ist für die Softwareindustrie von zentraler Bedeutung. Standards für Dokumentenformate, Kommunikationsprotokolle und Programmschnittstellen sichern die Interoperabilität von Systemen. Wettbewerbspolitisch stellen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601946
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Voluntary agreements and competition law
Vedder, Hans H. B. - 2000
Many voluntary agreements (VA's) fall under the European or Dutch cartel prohibition (Article 81 EC, Article 6 Mededingingswet). This paper starts with an abstract description of the relation between competition and environmental protection. Particular attention is paid to the role in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608642
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The Oracle/PeopleSoft case: unilateral effects, simulation models and econometrics in contemporary merger control
Budzinski, Oliver; Christiansen, Arndt - 2007
An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265740