-specific regulation and competition law. In this paper, we explore how these two approaches have been used to facilitate the arrival of …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 …

intervene in such market situations and if they intervene, what respective roles regulation and competition law should play … analyses how market power is controlled at the intersection between competition law and regulation in EU competition law and in …

Harold Demsetz once claimed that 'economics has no antitrust relevant theory of competition.' Demsetz offered this …-dimensional nature of competition. Competition does not take place upon a single margin, such as price competition, but several … dimensions that are often inversely correlated such that a liability rule deterring one form of competition will result in more …

relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … competition policy and intellectual property regimes, can have profoundly positive or negative consequences for economic growth …

This paper investigates the relationship between democracy and antitrust policy. Strong antitrust policies advance the … interests of consumers. We examine the empirical relationship between democracy, inequality, and antitrust policies in a broad … panel of countries from 1951 to 2010. Using a variety of empirical strategies, we find that democracy is predictive of …

undermine the intended stringency of the regulation and its overall chances of making digital markets systemically more … contestable and fairer. Thus, we think that a reform of the competition policy regime would better suit the need of regulating big …

gatekeepers, the “tipping” of markets and the rise of further gatekeepers is not guaranteed by the proposed regulation, this in … nature of ex ante and ex post measures in broader competition policy, we conclude that a reform of the competition policy …