Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

This paper empirically analyzes how a data broker affects competition in oligopolistic product markets. It examines a … competition was less fierce and product prices higher after the termination of information exchange via a data broker. Longer …

competition in the grocery trade. Market investigations of the sector have been launched in several Member States, and there have … practitioners have been under pressure to find out in what ways competition rules may be used to limit these practices. The goal of … this paper is to give a comprehensive overview of the competition law issues that might arise in the context of private …

This paper investigates the competition between payment card issuers in an artificial payment card market. In the … market leads to the result that more competitors do actually reduce competition for customers …

Pricing Game - to identify when competition between communications networks is a sustainable market outcome. The Network … results of The Network Pricing Game show that the sustainability of competition between networks is influenced by initial … that policy must be designed to meet market conditions. In some markets, competition will result without regulation. In …

competition in terms of the pass-through of both industry and firm-specific cost-reducing innovation when the invariance property …

this type of price discrimination is the natural mode of competition in subscription markets such as long distance …

alliances induce a down-market movement. Using data for fares on the transatlantic market from the Official Airlines Guide (OAG …