The current Austrian antitrust law regime has been in force for six years. Experience so far has clearly brought to the fore the strengths and weaknesses of the institutional setup and procedures in place, from which a need for reform may be derived. The latter arises largely from the fact that...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es zu untersuchen, inwiefern es der Wettbewerbskommission (Weko) gelungen ist mit ihren Auflagen im UBS-Fall den Wettbewerb im Schweizer Bankengeschäft zu stärken. Wir kommen zum Schluss, dass die Weko ihre Auflagen so lange den Vorstellungen der UBS angepasst hat, bis...

The recent Competition Commission inquiry into supermarket retailing highlighted the existence of spatial monopolies in certain areas of the UK. This paper explores their extent and examines future retail expansion opportunities in light of the report's recommendations. Using a number of...

Event study analysis is a branch of econometrics which attempts to measure the effects of economic events on the value of firms by examining stock market data. Providing that share prices reflect the underlying economic values of assets, changes in equity values will properly capture expected...

This paper examines the Competition Commission report on the provision of small and medium‐sized enterprise (SME) banking services in the UK. The examination will centre on the perceived clash between the ‘remedies’ proposed by the Competition Commission and the present forms of lending...