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The EU Digital Markets Act : A Report from a Panel of Economic Experts

Cabral, Luis M. B.; Haucap, Justus; Parker, Geoffrey; … - 2021

Over the last years, several reports highlighted the market power of very large online platforms that are gatekeeping intermediaries between businesses and consumers, and the difficulty for classic competition policy tools to deal effectively with anti-competitive practices in these platforms....

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Review Paper Two : The Links between Competition Policy, Regulatory Policy and Trade and Industrial Policies

Banda, Fatsani - 2016

This paper builds on an earlier working paper no. 04/15 on barriers to entry and inclusive growth by assessing the linkages between competition policy as a micro-economic tool and other national policy objectives. In so far as the mandates of regulators and various government departments charged...

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Market Definition and the Economic Effects of Special Access Price Regulation

Beard, Thomas Randolph - 2009

Access services. Given the present debate over expanding price regulation in this sector, the importance of market definition … on the expected economic effects of regulation is worth evaluating. In this paper, we demonstrate that if geographic … markets are “location specific” and supplied by a monopolist as the proponents of regulation claim, then price regulation …

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Regulation Effects on Investment Decisions in Two-Sided Market Industries : The Net Neutrality Debate

Cañón, Carlos Iván - 2013

This paper studies, using a two-sided market framework, the impact of regulation on platform's pricing scheme, on ….e. Net Neutrality regulation, will be more network users, more investment, and welfare is higher. If profit …-maximizing platform cannot charge buyers there will be more investment than without the regulation. If on top of not charging buyers …

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Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers : Implications for Content Variety, Broadband Investment and Regulation

Kraemer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - 2013

We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...

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Competing One-Way Essential Complements : The Forgotten Side of Net Neutrality

Broos, Sébastien - 2015

We analyze the incentives of internet service providers (ISPs) to break net neutrality by excluding internet applications competing with their own products, a typical example being the exclusion of VoIP applications by telecom companies offering internet and voice services. Exclusion is not a...

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Measuring Market Power and the E fficiency of Alberta's Restructured Electricity Market : An Energy-Only Market Design

Brown, David - 2016

We measure the degree of market power execution and inefficiencies in Alberta's restructured electricity market. Using hourly wholesale market data from 2008 to 2014, we find that firms exercise substantial market power in the highest demand hours with limited excess production capacity. The...

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Informationsfunktion der Rechnungslegung und buchhalterischen Entflechtung gemäß § 6b Energiewirtschaftsgesetz

Poullie, Michael - 2013

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Big Data and Data-Related Abuses of Market Power

Kuhn, Tilman; O'Shaughnessy, Kristen; Pesch, Tobias; … - 2022

This chapter analyzes Big Data and Big Data abuses of market power. The chapter provides an overview of developments under both EU and US case law relevant to such abuses as well as some of the economic underpinnings of such an analysis. While there are not many cases specific to this interface,...

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Co-investments and tacit collusion in regulated network industries : experimental evidence

Krämer, Jan; Vogelsang, Ingo - 2012

infrastructure investments beyond the level achieved by access regulation and they seem to facilitate tacit price collusion. On the … that must be considered. -- experimental economics ; network industries ; co-investment ; collusion ; regulation …

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