consider competition in health insurance markets and physician services markets. We conclude by considering vertical restraints …

requiring a higher CSR level by regulation while preserving competition always gives higher within-market welfare. … competition with differentiated products. Consumers have a willingness to pay for more responsibly manufactured products. Firms … agreements directly on the level of CSR reduce CSR efforts compared to competition. Such agreements throttle both for-profit and …

We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO … products using a random-coefficients logit model. On the supply side we assume Bertrand Nash competition in a multiproduct … oligopoly. Our results indicate anti-competitive effects in terms of too low interest rates. To the best of our knowledge we are …

Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial … competition policy interventions. Setting and enforcing the rules of the game is an activity with commercial effects because it … reviews selected landmark cases in sports competition policy from an economic perspective. This includes the U.S. baseball …

This paper applies dynamic competition theory to current topics and controversies in competition policy. In doing so …, it showcases how dynamic competition theory allows for specific competition policy recommendations and can contribute to … the antitrust discourse. The current competition and antitrust policy topics that are addressed include the as …

preventing open competition for championships formats and organization by objective and effect (section IV), and (iii) the …

I review previous approaches to modelling oligopoly in general equilibrium, and propose a new view which in principle …) are more convenient. To illustrate their usefulness, I construct a simple closed-economy model of oligopoly in general … equilibrium and derive some surprising implications for competition policy. …