Whereas the EU's internal market rules govern market access and public intervention, its competition rules are … concerned with the market conduct of private parties. When do the competition rules apply to healthcare? In principle the scope … for application of the competition rules to the healthcare sector is largely defined by the Member States themselves. This …

comparison of perfect competition (with no price discrimination) to monopoly (with price discrimination). Importantly, economists …. In an important class of spatial models and many real world markets, the consumers to whom one firm would like to raise …

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 …

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 …

preventing open competition for championships formats and organization by objective and effect (section IV), and (iii) the …

Brunei must enact an effective competition policy in order to participate as a member in regional trading blocs like … the APEC, ASEAN and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. What effect would Brunei's Competition Order have on Brunei - and … of competition policy - and use that indicator in cross-country analysis to figure out competition's effect on Brunei …

Competition law compliance has become increasingly important in the banking industry as the number of infringements and … competition law infringements. Therefore, this article sets out an approach to assessing the residual risk of antitrust non …

The study analyzes the impact of European antitrust enforcement on industry performance measured as competition … competitive market structure. We find that enforcement has a considerable effect, both on competition intensity and on … an increase in competition and productivity after the cartel break-up. The impact of vertical conduct is more complex …

significance. To what extent this is economically sensible is our question. The competition authority applies some welfare standard …