instead of harming it. Barriers that promote new competition or are applied in order to protect consumer welfare are socially … useful, while barriers that restrict competition and limit new competitor entry, in cases other than natural monopolies, are …

Prime and Netflix and Advertised-financed VoD like YouTube. Competition policy decisions in such dynamic markets are always … particularly challenging. The German competition authority was presented such a challenge when, at the beginning of the 2010s …

The study analyzes the impact of European antitrust enforcement on industry performance measured as competition … on the industry level since 1988, we estimate the impact of an infringement decision by the European Commission on the … competitive market structure. We find that enforcement has a considerable effect, both on competition intensity and on …

tenders, which may reduce competition over time. The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of competition for … empirically the evolution of competition in the market for local bus services in London …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of … regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for … improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should help to further promote competition. Much progress has been …

broadcasting, approaches to regulation of broadcasting and highlighting the features of the industry which give rise to competition …This document (of 351 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on regulation and competition issues … relating to the broadcasting industry, held at the OECD in October 1998. The publication includes submissions from 15 OECD …

The UK government progressively privatised the British gas and electricity industry between 1986 and 1996. By 2002 the … controls for all customer types, driven by the belief that competition would reduce prices. As Ofgem explained at the time …: “competition is now well established, effectively protecting customers’ interests, and continuing to develop well.” In the last six …

European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent … competition in the postal sector. There are two regulatory instruments to impose remedies in network industries, sector …

of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …