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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His … it to the other side of the market and eliminating producer's surplus - that much needed antitrust action has been … ignored by this narrow criterion. This analysis indicates that antitrust action is long overdue after considering two …
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definition of markets is central to the legal enforcement of antitrust statutes, the paper examines non-transactional multisided … quantifies that dominate internet platforms can create three major harms to consumers: - Increasing prices to consumers via added …
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For the ongoing and upcoming auctioning of 5G spectrum an important question is, what drives network quality in mobile markets? When comparing the provided mobile network quality between various EU countries considerable differences between these markets become apparent, which cannot be solely...
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addition, these platforms have not taken significant measures to address "fake-news", bots, trolls, or other malicious software …
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addition, these platforms have not taken significant measures to address "fake‐news", bots, trolls, or other malicious software …
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We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving … the first to apply merger simulation methods in the context of banking using disaggregated data. …
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Non-controlling minority shareholdings in rivals (NCMS) lower the sustainability of collusion under a wide variety of circumstances. Nevertheless, NCMS are sometimes deemed to facilitate collusion, in particular if the level of NCMS is exogenous. The present paper endogenizes firms' choice of...
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's failure to meet the Court's newly-found higher threshold demonstrating that the merger would lead to 'significant impediment …. Considering that on the one hand, the Court's decision is welcome as it reflects that even telecom mergers - that are heavily … merger specific efficiencies are also discussed. …
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This paper analyzes the effects of mergers on markups of non-merging rival firms in narrowly defined markets. Combining … data from the European Commission’s market assessments in merger decisions with production data, we use recent … the performance of almost 600 rival firms in close to 200 merger cases before and after the change in market structure …
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