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Summary: This Article performs a competition assessment of Wide and Narrow Platform Parity Clauses (PPCs) imposed on sellers wanting to avail the services of online marketplaces and intermediaries. It analyses judicial decisions from across the globe, examining the...
Resume: Market and price mechanisms are not perfect or complete. Instead market actors generate significant negative externalities, but these are clearly not fully reconciled solely by non-antitrust regulation, unlike often argued. Current competition law enforcement...
This paper is inspired by the following report: Bruno Deffains, Olivier d’Ormesson, Thomas Perroud, Competition Policy and Industrial Policy: for a reform of European Law, Robert Schuman Foundation, January 2020...
Resume: While the European State aid rules mainly aim at avoiding subsidy races between Member States in the internal market, they have increasingly been used by the European Commission to further its own public policy objectives. The European Court of Justice’s...
Resume: Economic policy determines the intensity of competition in markets. This gives incumbents the incentive to use their financial resources to influence policymaking in order to restrict competition and maintain or increase economic profits. Public authorities...
Prof. Dr. Oliver Budzinski is Professor of Economic Theory (Chair) and Director of the Institute of Economics at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. This paper draws on Budzinski (2020) and Budzinski, Gaenssle &Lindstädt-Dreusicke (2021). To quote this...
Summary: Viktoria H. S. E. Robertson is Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she heads the Research Group on Competition Law and Digitalization. She is also Professor of International Antitrust Law at the University of Graz, and Course...
Resume: New technologies have changed the way we consume. "Faster, anytime, anywhere" could be the slogan of this new era. The audiovisual sectoris no exception to this trend. The historical model of media broadcasting rules and calendarhas been abolished in favour of...
Antonin Pitras holds a PhD in Private law. His research focuses on regulation and competition within the banking sector. He also teaches Civil and Business Law at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. To quote this paper: D. Bosco, A. Pitras, “Interview of Antonin...
Resume: Deploying its vision of "Global Britain" in the port sector, the British government plans to create some free ports. In addition to an adapted customs regime, these ports and their surroundings will come with significant tax and social benefits. In addition to...