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The Internet is currently undergoing a major process of change and transformation. It is moving away from a basic model … (Hallingby et al, 2012 and Liebenau et al, 2012). Hence studying Internet as a whole is difficult, and there are many issues with … is made even more complicated when trying to address medium and long-term sustainability of the telecom and Internet …
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The European Regulation on short selling (SSR) has been applied to restrict hedge funds from short selling the stock of Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) as part of a distressed securities strategy. In the MPS case, a distressed securities strategy was carried out based on short selling, despite...
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Disruptive innovation creates increasing regulatory challenges. The reason for this is simple: Regulation is usually reactive, responding to facts. However, we currently live in a world of data, not facts. Regulation must therefore be proactive and dynamically responsive to data and trends. This...
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The use of blockchain technology in private investment funds is proliferating. Using a dataset of private investment fund advisers that utilize blockchain technology (N=120), we explore the core commonalities and differences in the use of blockchain technology between European and American fund...
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The European Union plans to achieve fully liberalized internal electricity markets by 2014. Achieving this ambitious goal is strongly dependent on two factors: national energy policies and transmission networks. The current work focuses on the national policies of three EU states across three...
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As the global economy incurs a process of transformation by the ongoing ‘fourth industrial revolution’, competition law is traversing a ‘liminal’ moment, a period of transition during which the normal limits to thought, self-understanding and behaviour are relaxed, opening the way to...
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The United Kingdom's Emissions Trading Scheme has its roots in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and these are both hinged on the effectiveness of the “cap and trade system”.The system and the scheme have had their criticisms, especially with regard to their capacity to actually...
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Non-discriminatory third-party access to transportation infrastructures in electricity - transmission and distribution networks - is essential for open and effective competition in wholesale and retail electricity markets. Competition in wholesale energy markets is possible and desirable as it...
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Industrial and competition policy are often seen as logical opposites: inherently conflicting. In my earlier research (1997) I have found that at EU level these two policies are in principle compatible if industrial policy is defined as promoting structural reform. This was illustrated by the...
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