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context of greater or lesser innovation remain important, because competition law enforcement is not suited to playing a … competition are not alternatives, but complementary …
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Undertakings may restrict competition by cooperating with their competitors or by interfering with their ability to … their marginal costs; in short: they create market power.In European competition law it has been considered that “unfair … “unfair prices” should be interpreted by competition authorities as referring merely to exclusionary prices …
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: consumer protection, data protection, competition policy and anti-discrimination rules. Finally section 4 concludes with policy …
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competition law and aims to give a critical appraisal of the present regulatory framework in Europe. In particular, this paper … European competition rules and to provide full compensation for those damages, has adopted a complex set of rules placing the …
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This article studies dynamic pricing strategies in the Italian gasoline market before and after the market leader unilaterally announced its commitment to adopt a sticky-pricing policy. Using daily Italian firm level prices and weekly average EU prices, we show that the effect of the new policy...
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applied in competition law fit with the incentive structure and the operation of such platforms. In the final section, the … paper highlights key questions from a competition law and from a policy perspective. It highlights how such practices defy …
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We provide a novel theory of harm for resale price maintenance (RPM). In a model with two manufacturers and two retailers, we show that RPM facilitates manufacturer collusion when retailers have alternatives to selling a manufacturer's product. Because of the alternatives, manufacturers can only...
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In December 1992, the US Department of Justice filed suit against eight major domestic airlines and the Airline Tariff Publishing Company in order to reduce opportunities for collusion in the industry. The lawsuit ended with consent decrees limiting the ability of airlines to communicate...
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Standard economics provides a well-understood framework of the competitive determinants of market prices that is now widely accepted for antitrust analysis. In “two-sidedmarkets,” where firms supply products demanded by two interrelated groups of consumers, these competitive forces operate...
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