This paper aims to analyze the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the European competition policy. The main purpose of our research paper consists in investigating whether the current competition regulation could allow certain types of behaviors which, on a long term,...

This article proposes a novel Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) index based on a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model. Acknowledging the argument that companies might favour those CSR dimensions that provide strategic competitive advantages, we argue that the index can capture companies’...

This paper studies the link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and economic performance of companies. Acknowledging the argument that companies might behave socially responsible strategically, i.e. favoring the CSR dimensions that provide competitive advantages, we construct a novel...

In this paper we discuss different pricing patterns observed from actual data in oligopolistic markets and we are reviewing the most suitable econometric tools to analyze and disentangle patterns informative to competition policy.We argue that there are certain market situations where parallel...