European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent … competition in the postal sector. There are two regulatory instruments to impose remedies in network industries, sector …

of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … cases. This paper, on one hand, reviews briefly our economic knowledge about competition and innovation, and claims that it …

Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial … competition policy interventions. Setting and enforcing the rules of the game is an activity with commercial effects because it … reviews selected landmark cases in sports competition policy from an economic perspective. This includes the U.S. baseball …

, and indeed inevitable, due to the globalization of trade. Any eventual "World Competition Law Convention" would best …Currently, a de facto global antitrust system, constructed on the basis of emulation of the converging U.S.-E.U. anti-trust/competition …. This de facto system is not yet based de jure in the World Trade Organization or any similar parallel institution. This may …

This article examines the meaning and scope of the notion of anticompetitive effects in EU competition law. It does so … in practice: the time variable (actual or potential effects); the dimensions of competition and the counterfactual; the …

Competition law accommodates two different contexts within which economics may be applied, each defined by a distinct … type of cause-effect relationships. First, there are effects of competition law on business conduct (deterrence effects … effects is Economic Analysis of Law. Second, there are effects of business conduct on competition (competitive effects …

of competition law. This raises difficult questions about the relationship between competition and innovation as well as … what kind of assessment concepts competition authorities should use for investigating innovation effects, e.g., in merger … cases. This paper, on one hand, reviews briefly our economic knowledge about competition and innovation, and claims that it …

Can competition of competition laws be a feasible concept that should play an important role in an international order … for the worldwide protection of competition? The authors will introduce four different types of regulatory competition … that allow for a more differentiated analysis of beneficial and deficient effects of competition of competition laws. Their …

There is a data paradox in competition enforcement. Data is an infinitely scalable, widely available, non-rivalrous and … asset unlikely to be conducive to competition issues. Yet, some observe that digital markets are increasingly dominated by … competition policy, this paradox must be unravelled. To this effect, this article examines the test devised by the Commission to …