regionalization could potentially address both these challenges. Regional integration of regulation, combined with regionalization of …

AEC during the period 2008–2015. Competition policy will play an important role in the achievement of the AEC. There has … been significant progress in regional cooperation to achieve the competition policy targets listed in the AEC Blueprint …. Even though only half of ASEAN member states (AMSs) have implemented competition laws, regional cooperation in this area …

further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate … economic perspective and, consequently, do not warrant regulation or other drastic interventions (like breaking the company up … Amazon and the major publishers in the e-book market require competition policy action. The standard antitrust instruments …

on the role of competition in shaping the economic, but also regulatory, eco-system in which blockchain technology … to the impotence of competition law to deal with an emergent digital space dominated by blockchain technology, predicting … and relies on a superficial analysis of Blockchain competition, as it does not consider the various ways in which the …

Economic Affairs and Labour. A number of articles deal with competition policies on the EU and national levels. They include an … introductory statement by Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, an overview of new developments in EU competition policies by … Commissioner Mario Monti, an assessment of how to reform Austrian competition policies as well as internal-market related issues …

What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote … competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be … coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …

its endeavour. In this respect, an EU competition policy that focuses on consumer welfare is one way to gain support by … the citizens of its member states. The Roaming Regulation that has reduced the mobile communications costs while … the interests and rights of consumers on the telecommunication market. The enforcement of competition and consumer policy …

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 …