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decision to host a conference in Brussels in January 2019 on “Shaping competition policy in the era of digitisation”, seeks to … by digital platforms are multi-fold and complex, the goal of competition authorities should be to protect innovation … offered for free, competition is based on quality, but also very largely on innovation. Thus, consumer welfare is served by …
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European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent … competition in the postal sector. There are two regulatory instruments to impose remedies in network industries, sector …
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Over the last ten years, the European Commission has been trying to increase competition in the postal sector. In order … the postal sector to competition, the level of competition achieved in this sector is quite uneven. Some segments of the … postal market are now subject to intense competition. Yet, others are still largely controlled by postal incumbents. The …
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In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules and institutions as instruments of economic regulation,...
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The main objective of this paper is thus to examine the state of adoption and implementation of competition rules in … include competition rules. Moreover, independently of the association agreements, some Euromed countries have decided to adopt … domestic competition law regimes. A related objective of this paper is to discuss why adoption of competition law regimes is …
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Countries with fully liberalized telecommunications markets have adopted different mixes of antitrust and sector-specific regulatory instruments. Does the balance between the two approaches matter for competitiveness? Drawing on the experiences of Australia, Chile, New Zealand, the United...
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