aftermath of the energy sector inquiry. Most of them have already been settled under Article 9 of the EC Regulation 1/2003 and …

after the district and appellate courts ruled that Phoebe Putney had antitrust immunity due to its regulation by the local … the effects of an otherwise anticompetitive hospital merger subject to local regulation. We found that, after a large … findings for recent initiatives that grant hospitals antitrust immunity in exchange for local regulation …

We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its … German cities - with the intensity of entry being dependent on the number of inhabitants, average income, the share of under …

The health care professions in Europe have been subject to substantial entry and conduct regulation. Most notably … competition through geographic entry restrictions. We develop an entry model to study the direct impact of the regulations on the … representative for many other countries with geographic entry restrictions. We find that the entry decisions of pharmacies and …

Entry regulations affecting professional services such as pharmacies are common practice in many European countries. We … assess the impact of entry regulations on profits estimating a structural model of entry using the information provided by a … that structural models of entry ought to be estimated with data from policy experiments to pin down how entry regulations …

stimulates market entry and broadband penetration and/or leads to an increase in broadband quality. In contrast to what is … entry as well as investments that substantially increase service quality. Thus this open access policy does not contribute …

that, over the course of time, many entrants have begun to take advantage of unbundling. LLU entry only had a positive … contrast, LLU entry continues to have a positive impact on the quality of the service provided, as entrants differentiate their … (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive impact on …

We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its … German cities - with the intensity of entry being dependent on the number of inhabitants, average income, the share of under …

superior results in the case of a mixed demand for high and low quality services. -- liberal professions ; price regulation … ; quality ; professional association ; self-regulation ; EU competition policy ; intrinsic motivation …

of commercialization (entry or sale) in network industries showing that high equilibrium acquisition prices are driven by … acquisition relative to entry. A policy enforcing strict compatibility leads to more entry, but can be counterproductive by …