relationship between competition and innovation, highlighting the deficiencies that significantly constrain antitrust enforcers …Harold Demsetz once claimed that 'economics has no antitrust relevant theory of competition.' Demsetz offered this … purpose of this essay is to revisit Demsetz’s broader challenge to antitrust regulation in the context of the frequently …

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 … regulation, innovation, and economic growth, the process of innovation itself is not well understood. The regulation of …

Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon …. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic …

Regulation and competition policy are two alternative modalities by which the state intervenes in the market. In order … competition, its effect on innovation and on the formation of ‘trusts’. We present reasons why competition policy is better than … varieties of market failures and identify those for which regulation is best address (cooperation failures such as The Fishing …

This paper analyses the impact of common ownership on markups and innovation and adds to the discussion of the recently … of common ownership on innovation activity in high-tech industries and no effectin low-tech industries. Both findings are …

. Following this introduction, Part II explains that sector-specific regulation and competition law are complementary tools and … even in the presence of ex ante regulation, competition rules should continue to play a significant role. Ex ante … regulation and competition law are complements, not substitutes. Finally, Part V contains a short conclusion …

anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of … assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that … none of the existing approaches seems to be appropriate to fully account for innovation competition. However, the …

anticompetitive effects of mergers, is insufficient to capture innovation competition in its full extent. As a consequence, the aim of … assessment of anticompetitive innovation effects in merger review. By focusing on the applied U.S. Antitrust, it turns out that … none of the existing approaches seems to be appropriate to fully account for innovation competition. However, the …

encourages infrastructure investments. The investment incentive of this regulation scheme has been multiply proven in the … lowers the investor’s termination rates but increases (in the absence of regulation), reduces (with LRIC regulation) or keeps … the competitors’ termination rates constant (with standard cost-based or price-cap regulation). Employing data for the …