The Opinion of Advocate General (‘AG’) Rantos in Servizio Elettrico Nazionale goes to the core of Article 102 TFEU. What is an abuse? What type of conduct is abusive? When does abusive conduct take place? What are the goals pursued by the prohibition of abuse of dominance, and who should be...

This paper analyzes a merger of large manufacturers with divestiture in the French coffee market. In contrast to previous approaches used to study the effects of upstream divestitures on prices and welfare, we model the vertical market structure. First, our results show that the standard policy...

In diesem Aufsatz wird ein netzökonomisch fundiertes Konzept zur Entbünde-lung entwickelt, mit dem Ziel den verbleibenden Regulierungsbedarf in den geöffneten Netzsektoren aufzuzeigen. Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Entbündelung als regulatorisches Konzept ist die Schaffung einer transparenten...