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Chapter 15 Antitrust
Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007
This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition … central features of antitrust policy. Our objective is to foster the improvement of legal regimes and also to identify topics …
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Paying off the competition : market power and innovation incentives
Li, Xuelin; Lo, Andrew W.; Thakor, Richard T. - 2021 - This Draft: 19 June 2021
subjected these agreements to antitrust litigation, thereby reducing the incentive to enter them. After the ruling, incumbent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818283
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Chapter 36 Antitrust Policy toward Horizontal Mergers
Whinston, Michael D. - In: Handbook of industrial organization : volume 3, (pp. 2369-2440). 2007
Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses … antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen some of the most dramatic improvements in both …
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Multisided markets and platform dominance
Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019
definition of markets is central to the legal enforcement of antitrust statutes, the paper examines non-transactional multisided …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151937
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Market Power in the German Wholesale Electricity Market : What are the Political Options?
Schwarz, Hans-Gunter - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728666
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Multisided Platforms, Dynamic Competition, and the Assessment of Market Power for Internet-Based Firms
Evans, David S. - 2016
Market power on each side of a multisided platform, whether in the form of increasing prices or decreasing quality, is constrained by the risk of losing sales on the other sides. That tends to weaken market power on each side and encourages platforms to keep prices lower and quality higher than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128700
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Critical loss analysis in market definition and merger control
Hüschelrath, Kai - 2009
. This development is documented by various research papers, high-level exchanges between antitrust experts as well as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299843
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The draft for the 10th amendment of German competition law: towards a new concept of "Outstanding relevance across markets"?
Budzinski, Oliver; Gänßle, Sophia; Stöhr, Annika - 2020
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 to extending the classic policy instruments of abuse...
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Is Amazon the next Google?
Budzinski, Oliver; Köhler, Karoline H. - 2015
Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and … Amazon and the major publishers in the e-book market require competition policy action. The standard antitrust instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492143
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Dynamic competition, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, and article 102 TFEU : towards a concept of systemic market power?
Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2024
In this paper, we comment on the debate about guidelines for Art. 102 TFEU in the face of the challenges brought by digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and derive four recommendations for the future enforcement of...
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