the doctrine in competition polcy and regulation in the EU and Hungary. The next section is devoted to the controversies … doctrine was developed in antitrust, it became a frequently cited notion in the regulation of network utilities. Its relevance …

-good/multi-unit auctions provides guidance on the design of the auction format; setting the reservation price; the rationing rule; and …

Although justification for competition policies is well founded in the economic literature, there is a need to … consensus that "competition is good," there is vagueness in the minds of many and uncertainty about the need for competition … policy and how competition should be enforced. This paper aims to contribute to the growing discussion on how to proceed from …

The paper discusses the respective roles of competition policy and sector-specific regulation for industries such as … when competition policy and to sector-specific regulation apply to a given industry at the same time. The discussion refers … governance nowadays is considered to involve downstream competition supported by a state-mandated access provision to the …

This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It … shows that weak competition is one of the fundamental factors that explain limited growth, productivity, and employment in …, while necessary, are not sufficient to foster effective competition. The success of these reforms depends on the creation of …

This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The … regulatory holiday induces highest investments, followed by risk-sharing and long-run-incremental cost regulation. Risk …

This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommuncations markets and, bases on this analysis, we discuss … understanding competition in mobile telephony, is the fact that building a mobile telephone network requires highly specific … interconnection and fixed-to-mobile termination may give rise to competition problems. As we argue in this paper, closer analysis …

We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national … that supranational competition can have very different consequences on the rent seeking behaviour of firms, depending on …