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Three economist's tools for antitrust analysis : a non-technical introduction
Pittman, Russell W. - 2017
The importance of economics to the analysis and enforcement of competition policy and law has increased tremendously in the developed market economies in the past forty years. In younger and developing market economies, competition law itself has a history of twenty to twenty-five years at most...
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Four Cases in Sports Competition Policy : Baseball, Judo, Football, and Motor Racing
Budzinski, Oliver - 2017
Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial activities are involved. From an economic perspective, this implies that both directly commercial activities like the sale of broadcasting/media rights and indirectly...
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the Netherlands
Maher, Maria - 2005
general, competitive pressures appear to be relatively strong in the Netherlands, particularly in the traded goods sector … restrict competition in professional services, even though both are relatively liberalised in the Netherlands. Reforms in …
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Detecting Collusion. The Cartel Index Applied to the Dutch Economy
Vermeulen, Tako - 2014
this thesis could be used by the Netherlands Competition Authority as a tool to prioritize sector investigations …
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Competition Law and Economics of Big Data : A New Competition Rulebook-Introduction
Carugati, Christophe - 2020
This thesis addresses Big Data issues in competition law in three chapters. Chapter one proposes new economic tools to define the relevant market and the market power in the data-driven economy. It argues the need to reform the relevant market and the market power by considering new tools and a...
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Merger Simulation in a Two-Sided Market : The Case of the Dutch Daily Newspapers
Filistrucchi, Lapo - 2010
We develop a structural econometric framework that allows us to simulate the effects of mergers among two-sided platforms selling differentiated products. We apply the proposed methodology to the Dutch newspaper industry. Our structural model encompasses demands for differentiated products on...
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Upward Pricing Pressure in Two-Sided Markets
Affeldt, Pauline - 2012
Pricing pressure indices have recently been proposed as alternative screening devices for horizontal mergers involving differentiated products. We extend the concept of Upward Pricing Pressure (UPP) proposed by Farrell and Shapiro (2010) to two-sided markets. Examples of such markets are the...
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Assessing Unilateral Merger Effects in a Two-Sided Market : An Application to the Dutch Daily Newspaper Market
Filistrucchi, Lapo; Klein, Tobias J.; Michielsen, Thomas - 2011
We compare different methods to assess unilateral merger effects in a two-sided market by applying them to a hypothetical merger in the Dutch newspaper industry. For this, we first specify and estimate a structural model of demand for differentiated products on both the readership and the...
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Is it Worth all the Trouble? The Costs and Benefits of Antitrust Enforcement
Hüschelrath, Kai - 2008
United States and the Netherlands. The analysis differentiates between an aggregate level approach which basically focuses on … United States and the Netherlands that the realised benefits overtop the realised costs by far as long as overcharges … cannot cover the derived cost estimate for the United States and the Netherlands. …
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Barriers to Entry into the Dutch <I>Retail</I> Banking Sector
Borkent, Koos - 2014
The Authority for Consumers & Markets has conducted a study into entry barriers of the Dutch retail banking sector. The entry of new players or even merely the threat thereof will increase competition in the Dutch banking sector. This is important because the Dutch retail banking sector has...
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