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anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of … none of the existing approaches seems to be appropriate to fully account for innovation competition. However, the …
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order the breaking up of large firms if this is deemed necessary to remedy adverse effects on competition even if they were … the Commission's jurisdiction under the European Merger Regulation and contravene the European competition law order as …
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Throughout the years, much intellectual energy has been invested into drawing the line between being anti-competitive by object or by effect, ignoring that an infringement must also be appreciable. Most likely based on a presumption that this is no longer a separate requirement, but part of...
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to broaden the current narratives. Competition authorities have recently engaged in significant preparatory work, often … in partnership with academics, in order to reflect on the challenges set by the digital economy to modern competition law … competition in the digital economy, inspired by the principles of "polycentric competition law" and engages in an in …
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This article provides an overview of the competitive issues surrounding online platforms. The general theme is that while much has been made of the structural features of online platforms there is little hard evidence that these are durable monopolies. Nonetheless, there are concerns about the...
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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 …
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In this paper, we analyse the potential application to the cloud computing services sector of EU competition rules …
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anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of … none of the existing approaches seems to be appropriate to fully account for innovation competition. However, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149809
This document (of 310 pages) comprises the proceedings of a roundtable on competition on the merits held by the OECD …'s Competition Committee at the OECD in June 2005. The roundtable addressed the lack of clear principles and tests for assessing the … behaviour of dominant firms. The shortcomings of the term "competition on the merits" as an indicator of lawful unilateral …
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This study constructs a model of anticompetitive exclusive-offer competition between two existing upstream firms. Under … exclusive-offer competition, the upstream firm's profit depends on the rival's exclusive offer. If the rival makes an exclusive …
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