Open space preservation is a planner's issue that is constantly debated, in particular on the success of the implemented instruments. Assessments of policy-effectiveness face many methodological problems that are briefly discussed here. We choose to analyse the contribution of Dutch policies to...

This mini-symposium takes stock of practical advances in competition damage evaluation. Combining perspectives from competition authorities, academics and practitioners respectively, it shows the existence of common principles and a set of widely accepted methods to calculate damages that may...

An important action that is illegal according to competition law, both in the US and Europe, is predatory pricing. In this paper we develop a model that allows an entrant to sue an incumbent for predatory pricing. The cost of production is essential for judgments in such cases, and we allow the...

Competition authorities and regulatory agencies sometimes impose pricing restrictions on firms with substantial market power - the dominant firms. We analyze the welfare effects of a ban on behaviour-based price discrimination in a two-period setting where the market displays a competitive and a...

We study the competitive and welfare consequences when only one firm must commit to uniform pricing while the competitor's pricing policy is left unconstrained. The asymmetric no-discrimination constraint prohibits both behavior-based price discrimination within the competitive segment and...

We study the competitive and welfare consequences when only one firm must commit to uniform pricing while the competitor's pricing policy is left unconstrained. The asymmetric no-discrimination constraint prohibits both behavior-based price discrimination within the competitive segment and...

We develop a general economic framework for computing cartel damages claims by purchaser plaintiffs. We decompose the lost profits from the cartel in three parts: the direct cost effect (or anticompetitive price overcharge), the pass-on effect and the usually neglected output effect. The pass-on...

The new regulation and guidelines present a mixed picture. Paul Lugard (TILEC) & Theon van Dijk (Lexonomics)