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Based on a sample of 64 cartels convicted by the European Commission from 1975 to 2009 and a methodology allowing to estimate restitution and dissuasive fines to be imposed on cartels from microeconomic variables on a case by case basis, this paper compares the level of fines actually inflicted...
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The recent judgment in Pfleiderer exposes a tension between two goals of European cartel control policy: the ex ante desire to prevent and deter the formation of cartels, and the ex post desire to ensure an effective means by which victims of such conduct can have their harms redressed. The...
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The controversy around the breakaway European Super League, set to conquer the UEFA Champions League, and the surrounding antitrust proceedings revive the academic discussion about the monopoly power of sport-internal governing bodies (like the UEFA), the justification for and limits of their...
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This comment addresses the opinion of the Advocate General (AG) of the European Court of Justice on the pending case European Super League versus UEFA/FIFA. It takes a critical perspective on selected aspects of the opinion’s reasoning from a (sports) economics perspective. Highlighting the...
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This comprehensive paper looks at various developments in the regulation of new media in Europe, such as copyright and intellectual property, liability of Internet intermediaries, net neutrality in Europe, Google and the Commission competition investigation, Public Service Broadcasters' online...
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One of the heavily negotiated issues between the US and the EU, during the Uruguay Round of the WTO, was the "cultural … exception" for "European films". The EU insisted that the concentration of film production in the US combined with globalisation … meant that the EU would otherwise be subsumed by US culture. As is discussed in this paper, Art house movies are not made …
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Users are increasingly concerned by the apparently arbitrary and often exorbitant charges for roaming services on their mobile telephones. Charges seem to have no relationship to costs or to best practice. Service providers make little effort to inform customers of the charges they will incur....
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