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The question of how interventions from the Competition Authority (CA) affect investment is not a straightforward one: a tougher competition policy might, by reducing the ability to exert market power, either stimulate firms to invest more to counter the restrictions on their actions, or make...
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The EC antitrust prohibitions are regularly invoked in private litigation as a shield. Private parties also play an … important role in public antitrust enforcement through complaints to the competition authorities. However, in marked contrast … situation is a desirable one. Indeed, from the perspective of ensuring that the antitrust prohibitions are not violated, public …
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Google’s claimed ability to exercise market power. The Antitrust Division has confirmed that it is investigating the … a valuable new service for expanding access to orphan books. We therefore conclude that neither antitrust intervention …
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This paper concerns the relationship between public antitrust enforcement and private actions for damages, focusing in … antitrust enforcement and private actions for damages. I argue that public enforcement should aim at clarifying and developing … the antitrust prohibitions and deterring and punishing violations, whereas private actions for damages should aim at …
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I discuss the design and implementation of a SSNIP test in order to identify the relevant market in a media market. I argue that in such a two-sided market the traditional SSNIP test cannot be applied as it is usually conceived but rather should be modified in order to take into account indirect...
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As the digital revolution has interrupted traditional supply chains and wholesaler relationships with manufacturers and retailers, companies are developing new methodologies to create supplier loyalty critical to control of market share. This article documents the leading strategies being...
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A general definition of exclusionary conduct has become a sort of Holy Grail for antitrust scholars. At present, four …
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Huge amounts of money will soon be spent by governments and private entities to develop technology to reduce the costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to deploy new energy and transportation infrastructures. Incredibly, we still lack any good idea of the best means of providing...
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The Scottish Government published proposals for the administration of an independent Scotland, its case for a vote in favour of independence in September 2014 and an outline of its manifesto in the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2016. Opinion polls continue to show that only about one...
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The paper is concerned with documenting and assessing statements made by policymakers, opinion formers, and other stakeholders in favour and against the adoption of competition laws with particular reference to transition and developing countries which have not yet enacted these kind of laws....
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