outcomes in deregulated markets. These market failures could be the result of bad regulation, bad competition law enforcement … opening up markets to competition does not automatically lead to more consumer benefits. When consumers have insufficient … made possible by effective competition and to activate competition. Information failures, therefore, can distort the …

European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent … competition in the postal sector. There are two regulatory instruments to impose remedies in network industries, sector …

effective competition. However, there is scope for so-called public interest considerations in several European merger control … regimes and recently a number of European politicians have called for more elbowroom for non-competition … non-market in the sense that these goals stand in conflict with competition. However, a trade-off between effective …