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The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and … seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next …
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On 9 June 2017, the 9th Amendment to the German Competition Act (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen) entered into … opportunity to implement some additional changes. One of the primary goals was to make German competition law ‘fit for the digital … important changes against the background of recent developments in EU and German competition law …
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The paper discusses the respective roles of competition policy and sector-specific regulation for industries such as … governance nowadays is considered to involve downstream competition supported by a state-mandated access provision to the … when competition policy and to sector-specific regulation apply to a given industry at the same time. The discussion refers …
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The 50plus1-rule in German football is a controversially discussed institution that regulates investment behavior of professional football teams. This paper discusses from a sports economics perspective the suspected market failures that the 50plus1-rule is expected to prevent. To examine the...
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-related markets. Implications for competition law enforcement are discussed. …
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services. This right of access is intended to promote technological innovation and competition in the consumers' interests in … legislature has rushed forwards, overtaking the EU Commission's ongoing competition investigation into Apple Pay as well as the … pending reform of the German Competition Act, which is aimed precisely at operators of technological platforms, which enjoy a …
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The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and … seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830958
This paper evaluates four publicly discussed policy options to mitigate market power in the German wholesale electricity market. These four options are: a regulatory solution favoured by the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, the implementation of a day-ahead flow-based market...
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the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead … interest. One of recent cases is the investigation of Facebook's data collection practices by German competition authorities …
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across industries. While it is unclear a priori what common ownership implies for competition, innovation, and consumer …
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