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Neo-Realism and the International Harmonization of Law : Lessons from Antitrust
Waller, Spencer Weber - 2009
begun again. The 1990s blueprint for international harmonization of antitrust law includes proposals for changing the … the substance of competition law, and suggestions for promoting antitrust enforcement in foreign markets as a means to … explicit and implicit assumptions that United States antitrust law can or should serve as a model for competition law for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222005
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The application of competition policy vis-à-vis intellectual property rights : the evolution of thought underlying policy change
Anderson, Robert D.; Kovacic, William E. - 2017 - Manuscript date: 6 September 2017
This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723874
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Merger policy in digital markets : an ex-post assessment
Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019
This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first discuss the most crucial features of digital markets such as network effects, multi-sidedness, big data, and rapid innovation that create important challenges for competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137099
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Geography, Competition, and Optimal Multilateral Trade Policy
Nocco, Antonella - 2019
How should multilateral trade policy be designed in a world in which countries differ in terms of market access and technology, and firms with market power differ in terms of productivity? We answer this question in a model of monopolistic competition in which variable markups increasing in firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890733
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The Inequality of Influence
Hellman, Joel S.; Kaufmann, Daniel - 2003
This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088240
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A Brief History of Media Merger Hysteria : From AOL-Time Warner to Comcast-NBC
Thierer, Adam D. - 2014
The effects of mergers on the media marketplace have historically failed to live up to dire predictions. Mergers are often a response to technological upheaval and turbulence in the media industry and firms should be allowed to experiment with such alternative business models with the intent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070497
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The Global Food Value Chain and Competition Law and Policy in BRICS Countries : Insights from Selected Value Chains in South Africa
Bosiu, Teboho - 2017
This working paper forms part of South Africa's contributions to the BRICS Joint Working Group on Food and Agro-processing's overarching report on ‘The Global Food Value Chain and Competition Law and Policy in BRICS countries'. Constituted by the competition authorities of the BRICS countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944570
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Global Declining Competition
Díez, Federico J - 2019
Using a new firm-level dataset on private and listed firms from 20 countries, we documentfive stylized facts on market power in global markets. First, competition has declinedaround the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm markups during 2000-2015. Second, the markup increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869288
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The Global Food Value Chain and Competition Law and Policy in BRICS Countries : Insights from Selected Value Chains in South Africa
Bosiu, Teboho - 2018
This working paper forms part of South Africa's contributions to the BRICS Joint Working Group on Food and Agro-processing's overarching report on ‘The Global Food Value Chain and Competition Law and Policy in BRICS countries'. Constituted by the competition authorities of the BRICS countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930095
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Reinventing Competition in the EU Telecom Sector NGNs & the Macro-Environment
Tompras, Theodossis G. - 2010
The present paper (presented in ITU's & INA 2009 workshop on “Migration to Next Generation Regulatory Environment”) tries to identify the effects of the concentration experienced so far in the EU telecom sector and offers a high level strategy proposition for alternative revenue sources in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149305