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. Following this, the paper reviews economic aspects of digital platforms, concerns about market foreclosure and essential …
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The study analyses the price formation and market functionality of the Finnish food chain. A significant portion of the …
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, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme … (SMP) were associated with increased product market competition, as measured by a reduction in average profitability, and …
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Die Sicherheit der europäischen Erdgasversorgung kann durch die konsequente Vollendung des europäischen Binnenmarktes erheblich gesteigert werden; Europa sollte in der Liberalisierung dem Vorbild der Vereinigten Staaten folgen. Russland kommt zwar auch künftig eine gewisse Bedeutung bei der...
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approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks … mentioned caveats in mind, our findings indicate that over the period 1994-2004 the US had the most competitive loan market …
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In the article, I focus on the goal of creating a single competitive European natural gas market. After a brief … the vision of the European Union for gas market liberalisation and its outcome. With the help of a case study from the … costs. The cause is the basic features - or the "nature" - of the gas market and the different institutional settings of …
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In dealing with telecom operator and internet mergers in the late 1990s the European Commission adopted a pessimistic view of competition based on the then emerging theory of network effects. This paper takes a short and critical look at the Commission's use of network effects theory, and its...
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Scrutiny of potential mergers by the European Commission often focuses on unilateral effects or single firm dominance. But some cases have involved concerns over coordinated effects: the concern that the merger could increase the likelihood of consumer harm through tacit collusion by the reduced...
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) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure … Microsoft had incentives to exclude rivals in the work group server market through degrading the interoperability of their …
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This article examines the nature of the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's Empagran decision through the lens of the global vitamins cartel, using legal and economic analysis and also empirical data to describe the effect. The article commences with a discussion of the analytic approach adopted...
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