The very concept of 'domestic regulation' in telecommunications comes from multilateral commitments of international trade in services, under WTO GATS. As international trade is a domain of multilateral and intergovernmental diplomatic relations, where regulation in telecom services, directly...

Consider a stock which is simultaneously traded on two venues either because its company cross-lists or because regulations allow multi-trading. We suggest that these venues represent an indirect network. Using trading volume data for nearly 22,000 equities between 2005 and 2009 we compare...

Consider a stock which is simultaneously traded on two or more venues, either because its company is cross-listed or because regulation allows multi-trading. We set the idea that these venues are 'indirectly' connected and represent a network. If the 'importance' of a venue is traditionally...

In recent years, the number of research and development (R&D) partnerships between firms has substantially increased. From the perspective of the individual firm, these partnerships are formed in order to share the risks and benefits of R&D. At the macro level, they result in a global spanning...

The aim of this paper is threefold. First, it seeks to contribute to a more fine-grained comparison between US antitrust and EU competition law by (selectively) including state antitrust laws as well as laws that pursue objectives different from the antitrust laws but interfere with the aims of...

Part I. Politics and culture -- Chapter 1. Culture in External Relations: The EU and Its International Economic Agreements -- Chapter 2. Beyond Trade – The Politics of Trade Agreements and Interstate Competition: Geoeconomics as a Basis for EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements -- Chapter 3....