-specific regulation and competition law. In this paper, we explore how these two approaches have been used to facilitate the arrival of …European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent …

This document (of 351 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on regulation and competition issues … broadcasting, approaches to regulation of broadcasting and highlighting the features of the industry which give rise to competition … member countries describing in detail the regulatory regime for broadcasting and some of the competition policy issues which …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of … regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for … improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should help to further promote competition. Much progress has been …

In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets … quesiton of whether the control of pricing practices through the ex post provisions of the general competition law is …

broadcast regulation have hardly changed. Regulators still apply license regimes, ownership limits, behavioral restraints, must … requirements. In contrast, we may expect convergence to aggravate the distorting effects that broadcast regulation has on content … and effect of the FCC's regulations are bound to diminish. Although a weakened FCC regulation will still distort the media …

weakens competition as it prevents prices from decreasing even when market conditions change, having negative effects on …

1-rule is expected to prevent. To examine the effects of the regulation empirically, we gathered panel data on 47 teams … properties of the regulation. We find anticompetitive effects and distorting properties of the regulation. …