This paper uses extensive firm-level data on Europe-an and US companies from 2014-2018 to explore the short-term impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on European companies' financial performance.Our empirical analysis suggests that the costs of the GDPR during the first year...

Pro-competitive forces have driven industrialised countries to converge in telecommunication market liberalisation. By 2001, the cellular mobile markets were open to competition throughout the OECD area. Only two OECD countries had a monopoly operator providing fixed-line telecommunication...

Liberalization of the European automobile distribution system in 2002 limits the ability of manufacturers to impose vertical restraints, leading to a substantial restructuring of the industry and increasing the competitive pressure among dealers. We estimate an equilibrium model of profit...