its endeavour. In this respect, an EU competition policy that focuses on consumer welfare is one way to gain support by … the citizens of its member states. The Roaming Regulation that has reduced the mobile communications costs while … increase in consumer welfare (primarily by reducing prices) and that they protect the rights and interests of consumers. In the …

further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate … economic perspective and, consequently, do not warrant regulation or other drastic interventions (like breaking the company up … Amazon and the major publishers in the e-book market require competition policy action. The standard antitrust instruments …

-profit-organisations, trade unions and consumers would like to come together to set up a regulatory framework. As set out in our paper competition …

, while we highlight the major points concerning competition regulation, which are related to the effort for the establishment … and defines the application of European competition law to this framework of restructuring. We firstly present the … law - the general framework of the application of competition rules to energy market, under a scope of combination of …

The paper examines the current state of competition in a number of sectors that are important for the economy. Because …, rather than some standard indicators of competition stance. The competition law and institutions are generally well …

The OECD Growth Study and other empirical work have shown that the strength of competition in product markets plays an … sense. More intense competition is likely to encourage stronger efforts of managers to improve efficiency and induce higher … economic reforms. Attention is then turned to indicators of product market competition to gauge the strength of competitive …

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. …