public interest. We then propose a commission rate cap regulation that reaps the flexibility of spatial pricing and can …

broker therefore strategically sells partial information on consumers in order to soften competition between firms. Extending …

organizational networks by mapping, analyzing and modeling the spatial structure of a large interfirm competition network across a … empirically observed characteristics of competition networks as a natural outcome of a minimal set of general mechanisms governing … the formation of competition networks. Both models, which utilize different approaches yet apply common principles to …

Economic Affairs and Labour. A number of articles deal with competition policies on the EU and national levels. They include an … introductory statement by Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, an overview of new developments in EU competition policies by … Commissioner Mario Monti, an assessment of how to reform Austrian competition policies as well as internal-market related issues …

substitution rule, and the combination of both on generic competition in a Salop-type model with an off-patent brand-name drug and …

We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …