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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 … parts of the industry should be subject to regulation, and (iii) the recent cases in the telecommunications and postal …
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Bancassurance has grown to currently become a completely consolidated insurance distribution channel in the global market, even though it shows unequal levels of development depending on the social and economic characteristics of the different countries. Several factors have contributed to give...
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Much scope remains to make regulation of product markets more conducive to competition ? notwithstanding progress in … objectives in energy market regulation could be achieved at lower cost. In the telecommunications industry, competition in the … local loop can be strengthened. Regulation of the liberal professions is among the most restrictive in the OECD. Entry …
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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 … parts of the industry should be subject to regulation, and (iii) the recent cases in the telecommunications and postal …
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This paper analyses the state of private enforcement of EU competition law in Germany after the implementation of the Competition Damages Directive 2014/104/EU. The Damages Directive provides full harmonisation, but only of select issues. In view of this fragmented legal framework, the “law in...
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A new defense against injunctions in FRAND cases has arisen in Germany, and its relationship to the Huawei defense (whether viewed as a competition or contractual matter) is largely unexplored. In August 2021, the “Second Act for the Modernization of Patent Law” (Zweites...
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Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...
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models of platform regulation (the draft EU Digital Markets Act, the draft UK Pro-Competition Regime, and the German …
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The European Commission is planning a new regulation for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (Due … an EU due diligence regulation by presenting results of a recent survey conducted by the German Economic Institute (IW … companies expect from the introduction of this German regulation. The results from the survey indicate that the introduction of …
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