policy approaches to product market competition and their consequences for product market rents. Against this background, the … paper summarises OECD recommendations to further strengthen competition in various sectors and areas. These include … easing residency or nationality requirements (professional services); meet competition challenges in network industries by …

firm risks.Recent studies have linked common ownership with competition concerns. In particular, it has been theorized that … institutional investors with holdings in multiple competing firms may have the incentive to dampen competition, either by … the competition concerns associated with common ownership, the proposed policy responses, and associated critiques. Given …

competition at the industry level of OECD countries. An instrumental variable approach, reveals a positive e ffect on industries …' competition intensity of leniency programs indicating e ffectiveness in cartel destabilization and eff ective deterrence …

competition at the industry level of OECD countries. An instrumental variable approach, reveals a positive effect on industries …' competition intensity of leniency programs indicating effectiveness in cartel destabilization and effective deterrence. -- Cartel …

This document (of 147 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on competition issues relating to … describing the regulatory regime for procurement and the competition policy issues which have arisen. The document also includes … a background paper prepared by the OECD secretariat discussing why competition issues arise in procurement, raising the …

an accepted market definition for competition law purposes There have been some limited analyses of inter …

competition. The European Commission, in trying to improve the wholesale roaming market, caused the introduction of a system of … non-discriminatory prices that were not subject to competition but instead to low levels of price transparency and with … partners, demonstrating little evidence of competition. Analyses of the wholesale markets by national regulators revealed …

generalise the approach and analyse the behaviour of a competition authority, which attaches different weights to the firms' and … restrictions also depends on the competition authority's instruments. The essential insights continue to apply if firms are …