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relationship between increasing knowledge intensity and the resulting market concentration: if the European Union economy is … gradually shifting to a pattern of sectoral specialisation that features a bias on knowledge intensive sectors, then this may …-agenda. Following a review of the available theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between knowledge intensity and …
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limitations of available knowledge, the so-called knowledge problem (“Wissensproblem”). Knowledge is widely dispersed among … importance to use as much of this dispersed knowledge as possible in competition law and policy. Two contemporary policy … (“efficiency defense”) and the comprehensive ex-ante regulation of all network industries by a common regulator. Moreover …
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In an industry where regulated firms interact with unregulated suppliers, we investigate the welfare effects of a merger between regulated firms when cost synergies are uncertain before the merger and their realization becomes private information of the merged firm. The optimal merger policy...
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In 2011, price peaks in retail gasoline prices caused public outrage and attracted the attention of German regulatory agencies. After having examined the market, competition authorities concluded that tacit collusion existed but could not easily be prosecuted under the given competition law. In...
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competition authority while technical and economic regulation would be performed by the sector regulator. At the same time, the …
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