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Digital markets have raised a number of new competition challenges. Ex-post competition policy appears not to be able … policy-makers, that ex-ante regulatory policies are needed to avoid competition being stifled in these markets, with a …
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This paper analyses the extent of inter-format retail competition between supermarkets, discounters and drugstores in … finding contrasts with recent speculations by competition authorities that private label products may belong to a different …
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patterns for a particular market (diapers) to investigate the inter-format competition (supermarkets vs. discounters vs … sold at drugstores and discounters. This result is important given controversies among competition authorities, firms and …
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. However, these strategies might also offset competition and have ambiguous welfare effects. Overall, though, the economic …-à-vis global digital platforms suggests that EU authorities should adjust their doctrine and practice of competition policy to make … a more balanced and efficient worldwide competition between all digital providers. In addition, EU competition …
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Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...
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There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...
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Competition and a competitive environment serve as a crucial foundation for the effective use of resources and the … goods. Customers may obtain more advantages at a lesser cost and of better quality when there is a strong competition. The … investment. Consumer protection and competition are critical for achieving economic growth and decreasing poverty. The …
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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 …
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EU payment sector. Second, it discusses the role of competition enforcement in the shadow of the PSD2. Finally, the Paper …
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