The article aims at verifying some features of packaging waste management system, as it has been organized in Italy …, with particular regards to its impact on competition and compliance with antitrust principles. According to a faculty … posed serious competition concerns, as demonstrated by some proceedings carried out by the Italian competition authority …

The paper provides a survey of some of the main tenets of water management in Italy, following the path of a rather …, according to a recent survey provided by the National Supervising Water Committee. Finally, a specific insight into competition … Italian Competition Authority …

(SPDEM) and on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT). I discuss issues relevant for undertaking an … evaluation such regulations. I argue that, for market performance, more information is not always better; indeed, more … information may undermine market performance by facilitating behaviour that is either not cost efficient or aims at exercising …

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market to analyze the effects of an external cost shock. I find strong evidence that prices do not fall to marginal costs …

structures. Our focus on understanding the market level equilibrium for relatively homogenous goods makes it clear that the … more appropriate. In contrast, for relatively differentiated goods, market definition analysis will require firm level …