general competition and sector specific frameworks and rules regarding the regulation of the Internal Energy Market … recent competition law cases of the Energy Market where structural remedies were applied under the commitments procedure …. Essential facilities doctrine and generally competition law tools do not seem to provide a suitable framework for effectively …

Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression … guidelines and policy statements has, arguably, been particularly important in the context of the competition policy treatment of … intellectual property rights, given the complexity of this area, the importance that competition agencies attach to it, and its …

normative assessment. R&D agreements have a much smaller effect on later competition in the product market if they serve as a … substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets … quesiton of whether the control of pricing practices through the ex post provisions of the general competition law is …

of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … cases. This paper, on one hand, reviews briefly our economic knowledge about competition and innovation, and claims that it …

analysis reveals that growth in innovation stocks via increasedR&D in specialized and science-based industries spurred … lacking such effects. Moreover, these specialized and science-basedindustries experienced strong innovation and productivity … growth by decreases in competition,thereby favoring Schumpeterian growth arguments for highly dynamic sectors. …

of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … cases. This paper, on one hand, reviews briefly our economic knowledge about competition and innovation, and claims that it …

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a … repeating AR-GARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject …, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific regulation. While standard event study approaches are a special …

in order to mitigate competition or offer a higher quality in order to restrict the entrant's geographical coverage. …