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role for antitrust challenges to PH laws and similar anticompetitive state regulation. If states wish to reduce the social …
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definition of markets is central to the legal enforcement of antitrust statutes, the paper examines non-transactional multisided …
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definition of markets is central to the legal enforcement of antitrust statutes, the paper examines non-transactional multisided …
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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His … it to the other side of the market and eliminating producer's surplus - that much needed antitrust action has been … ignored by this narrow criterion. This analysis indicates that antitrust action is long overdue after considering two …
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In order to encourage investment in telecommunication networks, governments have been encouraged to adopt a regulatory state model, with an independent regulatory authority that is subject to a system of appeals and to parliamentary oversight, providing different forms of accountability. The...
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This paper compares and contrasts the processes used by the European, United Kingdom and Scottish parliaments in considering broadband policies, legislation, regulatory systems and outcomes, within a complex triple-tiered governance system. Broadband is of increasing importance due to the...
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The internet traffic prioritization, traffic management, or network neutrality debate (however it is labeled) fundamentally centers on the question of how packet inspection technology can be used and, more specifically, if data packet inspection should be used to differentiate price and or...
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market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less … effective in markets driven by network effects unless it is combined with a proper (ex-ante) regulatory framework. Antitrust …
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Mainstream competition law has failed to protect competition in core digital platform markets. This is partially due to enforcement agency’s current commitment to proving the investigated conduct’s actual effects on competition and consumer welfare on the basis of in-depth assessments of...
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In the December 2020, the European Commission has presented its proposal for a Digital Market Act (DMA) aiming at promoting competition and preventing unfair practices on digital markets. The DMA creates a new category of platforms, "gatekeepers'', based on criteria relative to their turnover...
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