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The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next to extending the classic policy instruments of abuse...
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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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einer Regulierung gestellt. Die "Informationsherrschaft" hat dabei verschiedene Seiten: Zum einen kann die unbegrenzte … diese Interessen gegeneinander abwägen. Mit der "Regulierung" gegenläufiger informationeller Interessen obliegt ihnen eine … öffentliche Regulierungsfunktion zuzuweisen. In diesem Artikel sprechen wir uns gegen eine solche ex-ante-Regulierung aus. Das …
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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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This paper provides an overview of remaining national peculiarities after the alignment of the German competition law rules on cooperation between businesses with EU competition law. The focus lies on Section 3 of the German Competition Act which provides firms with extended leeway for...
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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 evaluates four publicly discussed policy options to mitigate market power in the German wholesale electricity market. These four options are: a regulatory solution favoured by the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, the implementation of a day-ahead flow-based market...
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On 9 June 2017, the 9th Amendment to the German Competition Act (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen) entered into force. It transposes the EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions into German law. Yet, the German legislator also took the opportunity to implement some additional changes....
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The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next to extending the classic policy instruments of abuse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830958
This chapter discusses the independence of competition authorities and addresses the question whether an independent European competition authority would perform a better competition policy than the competition office of the European Commission, which is not independent but, instead, integral...
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