This paper aims to analyse some of the main economic, legal and institutional factors that will have been relevant in the formulation of the State aid provisions in the Withdrawal Agreement (and the White Paper previously submitted by the UK Government). It compares these provisions with other...

After an introduction to Chicago School antitrust analysis, this paper provides an overview of the main insights that economic theory has provided in regard to vertical agreements. Following a theoretical discussion of both the benign and anticompetitive motivations for vertical coordination and...

We use a unique dataset to analyze the marriage patterns of the British and German nobility from the 1500s to the 1800s, and discuss the differences in institutions between the two countries. Historical evidence shows that: nobles tended to marry nobles with identical title; and, German marriages...

We study the choice of the regulatory structure when a regulated firm engages in different activities for different countries. Under decentralization each activity is regulated independently and the contracts offered to the firm suffer from two opposite distortions with respect to...