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A Theoretical Understanding of Abuse of Economic Dependence in Competition Law

Lee, Sangyun - 2022

economic dependence remains terra incognita in antitrust academia. The academic literature covering this topic has gradually …

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Cost-Based Pricing : Wishful Thinking by Competition Authorities and Price Regulators

Ten Kate, Adriaan - 2022

Production costs play a crucial role in competition policy and price regulation. A shared purpose of both policies is to keep prices close to production costs to the benefit of the consumers and of the society as a whole. The problem is that prices are per product and costs are per firm. So, the...

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The Challenge of Holding Big Business Accountable

Shapira, Roy - 2022

In July 2021, a sweeping executive order committed the entire U.S federal government to reining in big business. Dozens of proposed bills at the state level similarly target big business for stricter regulatory treatment. But unlike in past decades, today’s calls to break up and intensely...

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The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) : A Summary

Moreno Belloso, Natalia - 2022

On December 15, 2020, the European Commission released a proposal for a Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA targets so-called 'gatekeepers': large digital platforms that have become important gateways for business users and end users. The DMA imposes on gatekeepers a set of obligations amounting...

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Mobile Market Performance and Market Structure in Europe During the 4G Era

Abate, Serafino; Bahia, Kalvin; Castells, Pau - 2020

This study evaluates the impact of competition on quality, innovation and price in Europe’s mobile communications market during the 4G era (2011-18). Our results indicate that European mobile users in more concentrated markets benefitted the most from higher network quality, particularly with...

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Taking Ecosystems Competition Seriously in the Digital Economy : A (Preliminary) Dynamic Competition/Capabilities Perspective

Petit, Nicolas; Teece, David - 2020

. It closes by exploring how a dynamic capabilities/competition-minded antitrust policy would look like. The paper was …

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Crowdsourcing Consumer Confidence : How to Regulate Online Rating and Review Systems in the Collaborative Economy

Busch, Christoph - 2016

The key argument of this contribution is that there is a case for harmonisation of the rules for online rating and review systems at the European level in order to create a level playing field for the collaborative economy. Following the model of the ‘new approach’ which has been efficient...

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The Images of the ‘Consumer’ in EU Competition Law

Jones, Alison; Albors-Llorens, Albertina - 2016

This paper examines the different images of the ‘consumer(s)’ drawn in EU Competition Law and seeks to identify exactly who those consumers are. The competition provisions in the TFEU make several express references to consumers without defining the term. Further, a number of allusions to...

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The IEEE-SA Revised Patent Policy and Its Definition of 'Reasonable' Rates : A Transatlantic Antitrust Divide?

Petit, Nicolas - 2016

the US (Sidak, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a similarly lenient antitrust approach to Standard … Food Company), episodic collusion (T-Mobile) and horizontal agreements with limited market coverage (Expedia). Those … the antitrust risk for all forms of coordination, including arrangements of the type found in the IEEE-SA updated patent …

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The Smallest Salable Patent-Practicing Unit ('SSPPU') Experiment, General Purpose Technologies and the Coase Theorem

Petit, Nicolas - 2016

In the last years, some Standard-Setting Organizations (“SSOs”) active in wireless communications have experimented new pricing principles for standard essential patents (“SEPs”). One of those experiments is the “SSPPU” rule. Under SSPPU, the licensing rates paid to owners of SEPs...

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