Economists have long recognized that in free markets, incentives to innovate will be diluted unless some factors grant innovators with a temporary monopoly. Patenting is the most cited factor in the economic literature. This survey concentrates on another factor that confers innovators with...

This paper analyzes the institutional design of the European competition policy system. Besides the multi-level public enforcement, the paper describes other two fundamental dimensions of the European competition policy system: the relationship between public and private enforcement and that...

Regarding industry, the bank in broad acceptation it consists of all firms producing identical or substitutable goods and services, these companies are engaged in a close race to meet similar needs as the same type of buyers.<p> The evolution of industries is influenced by several factors: the pace...</p>

Applying a conjectural variations (CV) model introduced by Haskel and Scaramozzino (H&S model 1997), the paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on the Philippine cement industry where alleged cartel activities have taken place after the entry of the world's Big Three cement firms:...

The article focuses on the most important aspects of Competition Policy as a guarantor of an undistorted Single Market and on the harmonization of Romania’s legislation regarding Competition to the European coresponding acquis. Furthermore, for a better understanding of the mechanisms involved...

Economists have long recognized that in free markets, incentives to innovate will be diluted unless some factors grant innovators with a temporary monopoly. Patenting is the most cited factor in the economic literature. This survey concentrates on another factor that confers innovators with...

This paper analyses the South African flour cartel, active from 1999 to 2007 and provides an overcharge estimation by using comparator based methods. The empirical analysis is complemented by a descriptive overview of the history and structure of the South African flour industry. The flour...

The paper critically reviews and describes the activities undertaken by the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) in its first two decades of action. As an independent Authority, it has the status of a public agency whose decisions are taken on the basis of The Italian Competition and Fair Trading...

Il contributo rilegge criticamente il rapporto tra presidio pubblico della concorrenza e azioni di danno promosse dalle vittime di illeciti antitrust. L'impostazione tradizionale assumeva che il compito di arginare deviazioni monopolistiche corrispondesse a un interesse pubblico e dovesse, di...

Questo contributo si propone di esplorare il nesso tra interesse pubblico e interesse privato con riferimento al risarcimento del danno antitrust. Questo proposito è stato declinato sia su un piano generale, di analisi normativa, sia su un piano più concreto di analisi positiva, prendendo in...