limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …

limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …

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 …

In this paper we investigate competition in banking systems in the EU27 as a whole for the period 2004 – 2010, but also … estimate a non-structural indicator of banking competition, using the H-statistic indicator that is estimated using bank …-level data. Also, we apply two tests of convergence, β- and σ-convergence, for assessing competition evolution during the …

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 …

and competition from the fringe. We argue that when dominance is derived from first-mover advantages and innovation … feedback loops, rather than high and non-transitory barriers to entry, competition policy and regulation should avoid … from anti-competitive foreclosing abuses rather than from competition on the merits …

This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …

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 …

. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken … competition and has left a legacy of government intervention. Strengthening competition requires upgrading competition policy …