This paper analyses the extent of inter-format retail competition between supermarkets, discounters and drugstores in … finding contrasts with recent speculations by competition authorities that private label products may belong to a different … antitrust market than manufacturers' brands. …

This paper analyses the extent of inter-format retail competition between supermarkets, discounters and drugstores in … finding contrasts with recent speculations by competition authorities that private label products may belong to a different … antitrust market than manufacturers' brands. …

This paper analyses the extent of inter-format retail competition between supermarkets, discounters and drugstores in … finding contrasts with recent speculations by competition authorities that private label products may belong to a different … antitrust market than manufacturers' brands. …

bargaining power between the two negotiating parties in a vertical structure. We use a demand model where the consumer demand …

through static price/output competition in the market. Sound antitrust economic analysis of such industries requires explicit …Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic …, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than …

the US economy to perform poorly and that lax antitrust policy is one important reason for the decline in economic … calls for dramatic changes in antitrust policy …

to decline as antitrust enforcement regimes had become stricter. As predicted by cartel theory, market structure is an … environment on the size of the overcharges imposed by cartels in different geographic markets and during six antitrust law regimes …

effects-based method, such as estimating the elasticity of residual demand. By doing so, competition authorities can assess …In this thesis, I have examined whether the current approach to competition policy is suitable for the distinct …