(SPDEM) and on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT). I discuss issues relevant for undertaking an … evaluation such regulations. I argue that, for market performance, more information is not always better; indeed, more … information may undermine market performance by facilitating behaviour that is either not cost efficient or aims at exercising …

test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the … markets (MSM) where the appearance of "no harm" is addressed to only one side of the market. The correct view is to examine … it to the other side of the market and eliminating producer's surplus - that much needed antitrust action has been …

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 … different services and markets is an efficiency imperative and not a sign for market failure. Nevertheless the necessity of …

law - the general framework of the application of competition rules to energy market, under a scope of combination of …This article examines the energy market restructuring in EU after the gradual liberalisation process of previous years … and defines the application of European competition law to this framework of restructuring. We firstly present the …

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 …

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 … concentration. The essay argues that when debating about the good and the bad of a free market system vis-à-vis government …

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 …

the DNS industry and attempts an economic analysis thereof, in search of market failures liable to justify a regulatory … 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 …