enforcement of existing laws.This testimony provides insights on three important questions concerning the state of competition in …

This paper looks at whether the standard unilateral effects model can be applied to non-price competition parameters … such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are … found to give rise to a “significant impediment to effective innovation competition” (“SIEIC”) as a result of a reduction in …

services. This right of access is intended to promote technological innovation and competition in the consumers' interests in … legislature has rushed forwards, overtaking the EU Commission's ongoing competition investigation into Apple Pay as well as the … pending reform of the German Competition Act, which is aimed precisely at operators of technological platforms, which enjoy a …

and numerous market failures affecting development. In these types of markets, implementation of competition law and … promote transparent competition. The experience of other countries and their approach to the implementation of competition … their implementation processes. The Andean Community has an emerging history of implementing competition law through …

Using the persistence of corporate profits as a measure of the intensity of product market competition in 19 countries …. Greater shareholder protection increases competition between firms in common law countries, but reduces it in civil law ones …. We conclude that shareholder rights act as complements to product market competition in the common law world but not in …

policy circles are starting to focus on how this phenomenon should factor into the competition policy framework itself. While … big data can enhance competition, improve product offerings, and create a marketplace where resources are allocated more … efficiently, the Chapter argues that competition policy designers and enforcers are bound to deal with unprecedented data …