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Shaping markets through competition and economic regulation is at the heart of addressing the development challenges facing countries in southern Africa. The contributors to 'Competition Law And Economic Regulation: Addressing Market Power In Southern Africa' critically assess the efficacy of...
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This article oscillates around the intersection of sustainability and digital platforms, which is an increasingly important and complex area of study in which digital platforms can have both a positive and a negative influence. The interaction between sustainability and digital platforms is...
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The objectives of competition policy and the application of competition law need defining and redefining along with changing structures of the economy and the maturing of the competition authority. Market structures associated with digital technology and globalization are often not in consonance...
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Could identical goods sold by the same company on the same territory and at the same time be attributed to different product markets? In our paper we take a closer look at the case of the wrought-steel wheel industry, which became the subject of an antitrust investigation initiated by the FAS...
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"The book examines whether EU competition policy is applied fairly and consistently to EU and non-EU firms despite persistent political pressure from member states for a relaxation of the rules and deals with the dilemma of regional organisations in the global political economy. Focussing on the...
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We estimate a structural vector autoregressive model in order to quantify four main explanations for the decline of the US labor income share: (i) rising market power of firms, (ii) falling market power of workers, (iii) higher investmentspecific technology growth, and (iv) the widespread...
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politischer Macht sowie zwischen Marktmacht im engeren Sinne und Macht als Folge von Unternehmensgröße (Skalenmacht) zur … Diskussion gestellt. Eine Synthese der historischen Literatur über Marktmacht in Österreich dokumentiert die mangels empirischer … damit die Grundlage für eine aktuelle Einschätzung der Entwicklung von Marktmacht österreichischer Unternehmen im …
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This study investigates the relationship between bank market power and firms’ financing constraints, indicated by the likelihood of being discouraged from applying for bank loans. The full data sample covers more than 72,000 small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in 113 countries around the...
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Distribution cartels in the automotive sector used to be frequently dismantled and sanctioned by the European Commission and the EU Courts still some 15 years ago. In recent years, however, only a few cases have been reported at the national level of EU Member States. Is it because the...
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