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Competition Law as Collective Bargaining Law

Tankus, Nathan; Herrine, Luke - 2021

through price leadership, a form of inter-firm coordination that has been explicitly granted an exemption from antitrust … downstream firms through a variety of legal mechanisms that have also been exempted from antitrust enforcement. Attempts to …

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The Proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA) : A Legal and Policy Review

Petit, Nicolas - 2021

In December 2020, the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”) was proposed. It was prepared by the European Commission (“EC”) following several years of work. The DMA attempts to improve “fairness” and contestability” in the digital sector. The DMA acknowledges that some companies designated...

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Competition Work at the OECD

Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. - 2012

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Progressivity and Flexibility in Developing an Effective Competition Regime: Using Experiences of Poland, Ukraine, and South Africa for developing countries

Kronthaler, Franz; Stephan, Johannes - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH) - 2006

The paper discusses the role of the concept of special and differential treatment in the framework of regional trade agreements for the development of a competition regime. After a discussion of the main characteristics and possible shortfalls of those concepts, three case countries are assessed...

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Crime and punishment: When tougher antitrust enforcement leads to higher overcharge

Jensen, Sissel; Kvaløy, Ola; Olsen, Trond E.; … - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2013

being detected, then a higher general punishment level can increase the crime level. In the context of antitrust enforcement …, the model shows that competition authorities who attempt to fight cartels by means of tougher sanctions for all offenders … may actually lead cartels to increase their overcharge when leniency programs are in place. …

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Economic Reform of the Electricity Industries of Central and Eastern Europe

Stern, Jon; Davis, Junior R. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 1997

The purpose of this paper is the following: firstly, to chart how much economic reform of CEE electricity industries has taken place to date; secondly, to discuss why progress has been so limited; and, thirdly, to consider the prospects over the next few years. In charting the economic progress to...

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A SSNIP test for two-sided markets: the case of media

Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2008

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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Enforcement of European Competition Policy - Impact on Competition and Efficiency

Klein, Gordon J.; Günster, Andrea - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

The study analyzes the impact of European antitrust enforcement on industry performance measured as competition … productivity. However, the impact di ffers with the anticompetitive economic conduct. Cartels behave as theoretically predicted …, with positive and negative effi ciency eff ects of antitrust enforcement depending on the exclusivity of the vertical …

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The Political Economy of European Merger Control: Evidence Using Stock Market Data

Duso, Tomaso; Neven, Damien J; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The objective of this Paper is to investigate the determinants of EU merger control decisions. We consider a sample of 164 EU merger control decisions and evaluate the anti-competitive consequences of these mergers from the reaction of the stock market price of competitors to the merging firms....

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Sunk Costs, Accommodation, and the Welfare Effects of Entry.

Sachbar, J.H.; Peterson, B.C.; Hwang, I. - Business Law and Economics Center, Olin School of Business - 1997

Although economists usually support the unrestricted entry of firms into an industry, entry may lower welfare if there are setup costs or if entrants have a cost disadvantage. We consider the welfare effects of entry within a standard Cornot model where some of an incumbent firm's costs are sunk.

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