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Do Prices Grow More in Euroland? Evidence from the Airline Industry
Bachis, Enrico; Piga, Claudio A. - 2008
Using more than 10 million on-line fares, we study the determinants of yearly fares' changes in June 2002-June 2005. We verify whether airlines took advantage, after the Euro introduction, of potential inflationary pressures by increasing their fares more in routes to Eurozone nations. The...
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Global Antitrust Prosecutions of International Cartels : Focus on Asia
Connor, John M. - 2009
International cartelists today face antitrust investigations and possible fines in a score of national and supranational jurisdictions. This paper aims at providing quantitative information about the size and impacts of international cartel activity in Asia and uses a sample of modern private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222893
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Do European carriers dominate their hubs?
Lijesen, Mark G.; Rietveld, Piet; Nijkamp, Peter - 2000
We analyze the phenomenon of hub dominance by developing a model relating faresto distance, using the mainleg of intercontinental flights for scaling purposes. Our results indicate thatat least some of the major Europeancarriers place a mark up on flights originating from or going to their hubs.
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Vertical Differentiation and Airline Alliances : The Effect of Antitrust Immunity
Fageda, Xavier - 2019
This paper explores, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of granting antitrust immunity (ATI) to airline alliances in a novel and realistic framework characterized by vertically-differentiated air services. Our theoretical model suggests that non-ATI alliances produce an up-market...
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The High Economic Costs of Cartels : Can Private Enforcement Help?
Connor, John M. - 2010
This chapter examines anti-cartel enforcement in selected jurisdictions around the world, paying particular attention to the role of private court actions in attaining optimally deterring sanctions. The principal conclusions are as follows. There are numerous indicators that enforcement in North...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136896
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Trade Mark Cluttering - Evidence from EU Enlargement
von Graevenitz, Georg - 2012
trade mark register in Europe. Enlargement increased regulatory uncertainty for pharmaceutical firms because the number of … of this regulatory shock on pharmaceutical firms' trade mark application strategies are studied using Difference … on pharmaceutical firms' incentives to clutter trade mark registers with trade marks they are unlikely to use …
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Price Patterns Resulting from Different Producer Behavior in Spatial Equilibrium
Mathiesen, Lars - 2012
We are concerned with economic analyses of markets from the perspective of supporting a decision maker selling in the market. The competitive pressure and the price formation are central issues. The goal of this paper is to highlight the remarkably different price patterns obtained from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108157
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Competition Law and Sector Specific Rules in European Energy Sector : A Comparison to Trinko, Recent Commission’s Antitrust Decisions and a Look to the Future
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2014
This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and general competition law, especially concerning energy markets and the road to Internal Market objective.We firstly present Trinko case, in order to focus on two crucial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069619
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European Energy Market After Deregulation : A Process of Limited Restructuring and the Role of European Competition Law
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2014
The financial organisations engaged in the electricity and natural gas markets were forced to change, due to the deregulation process. The presence of new players in the markets and changes in demand obliged the existing companies to react. This reaction was not limited to an aggressive...
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