of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a …

Recent rate increases by U.S. freight railroads have refocused attention on regulation, deregulation, and regulatory … subject to the jurisdiction of the antitrust statutes, with potential enforcement by the Antitrust Division and the FTC and … legislation and the likely impacts on competition and welfare. …

market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less … may engage in anti-competitive practices that reduce innovation and consumer welfare. This paper deals with the role of … effective in markets driven by network effects unless it is combined with a proper (ex-ante) regulatory framework. Antitrust …

normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller effect on later competition in the product market if they serve as a … substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

ensure a level playing-field for innovative services in smart grids and consider implications for research and regulation. …

Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His … it to the other side of the market and eliminating producer's surplus - that much needed antitrust action has been … ignored by this narrow criterion. This analysis indicates that antitrust action is long overdue after considering two …

This paper analyses the impact of common ownership on markups and innovation and adds to the discussion of the recently … of common ownership on innovation activity in high-tech industries and no effectin low-tech industries. Both findings are …

Amazon and the major publishers in the e-book market require competition policy action. The standard antitrust instruments …Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and … further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate …

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … this an interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market …

The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market … economy instead of standard antitrust concerns. In technology areas where the breakup reduced concentration, patenting …-induced innovation increase by the IG Farben successors, which then spilled over to the wider chemical industry. …