competition present in this market, regardless of the approach used. In this paper, in order to analyse the price levels in the …

competition present in this market, regardless of the approach used. In this paper, in order to analyse the price levels in the …

Cartel detection is one of the most basic and most complicated tasks of competition authorities. In recent years … should serve to promote the implementation of this methodology among competition authorities, albeit in the awareness that a …

Empirical evidence drawn from the economic literature points to a low level of competition in the retail petrol market …

This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in the banking sector. The empirical answer is … given by testing a monopolistic competition model of bank branching behaviour on individual bank data at county level … among incumbent banks on competition and discuss when, depending on the pre-merger structure of the market and geographic …

We propose a new test to evaluate the impact of horizontal mergers on competition in the banking industry. The test is … and interest rates and consists in comparing the estimated degree of competition in the status- quo, where branching … estimated measures of competition quantifies the impact of the merger. We apply our test to French and Italian mergers …