competition authorities should not forbid such vertical mergers if they seek to maximize social welfare …

This paper provides a positive and normative discussion of the role of competition law – and competition authorities … analysis of recent EU and American case law with a simple economic model of multi-agency regulation and its effects on … competition law a much greater role than my model would suggest is wise …

strive for framework conditions that enable or even better facilitate innovation as well as dynamic competition. Ultimately …

legacy network pushes the entrant firm to invest more, but has an ambiguous effect on the incumbent's investments, due to two … are subject to ex-ante access regulation, we also find that the two access charges are positively correlated …

This paper investigates the relationship between technical progress, competition, and the impact on consumer's surplus …

literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …; (2) regulation, however, is not conducive to plants' "green" technical change, which provides evidence against the recast …

relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … competition policy and intellectual property regimes, can have profoundly positive or negative consequences for economic growth …