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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommuncations markets and, bases on this analysis, we discuss … understanding competition in mobile telephony, is the fact that building a mobile telephone network requires highly specific … interconnection and fixed-to-mobile termination may give rise to competition problems. As we argue in this paper, closer analysis …
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and defines the application of European competition law to this framework of restructuring. We firstly present the …, while we highlight the major points concerning competition regulation, which are related to the effort for the establishment … law - the general framework of the application of competition rules to energy market, under a scope of combination of …
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On December 15, 2011, Phoebe Putney Health System acquired the only other hospital in Albany, Georgia — Palmyra Medical Center — despite the Federal Trade Commission's challenge of the merger as anticompetitive. The acquisition was consummated after the district and appellate courts ruled...
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This paper discusses the UK's concurrency arrangements under which sector regulators can apply aspects of competition … law to their industry. It is frequently claimed that concurrency is a unique aspect of UK competition policy. However … the role of ex post competition policy relative to ex ante regulation and the interactions between sector regulators and …
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As the embodiment of classical competition, freedom of contract was still a fundamental notion for the American … economists of the Gilded Age. For this reason, it played a key role in the controversies about competition and regulation that …
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This paper discusses the UK's concurrency arrangements under which sector regulators can apply aspects of competition … law to their industry. It is frequently claimed that concurrency is a unique aspect of UK competition policy. However … the role of ex post competition policy relative to ex ante regulation and the interactions between sector regulators and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922715
towards competition rather have to do with network effects, as exploited by the dominant operators by means of arguably anti …-competitive behaviour. Subsequently, the paper analyses the distortions of competition caused by the current DNS governance model. It … possible options for a reform of the management of the DNS with a view to reducing unnecessary distortions of competition …
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competition in digital markets, underscoring competition issues. The question shifts then from why to how to adapt competition to … the digital economy. Digital competition and digital regulation? Europe, the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Italy …, Austria, the United States consider ex-ante regulations and ex-post competition laws to tackle issues in digital markets …
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