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This paper provides an economic analysis of the competition effects of UEFA's financial fair play regulations. It concludes that the restrictive effects of the break-even rule cannot be justified by a legitimate objective defense (according to European competition policy) because significant...
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This paper demonstrates that the Most-Favoured-Customer (MFC) clause identified in the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) Report of Foreign Package Holidays behaves not like an MFC but rather as if it was a variant of a so far unstudied price matching guarantee. This provides a clearer...
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importance of payoff aspirations influenced by social norms of fairness. A theoretical extension accommodates our experimental …
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Vertical restraints have been subject of lively policy and academic discussions. Scholars associated with the Chicago School challenged early foreclosure doctrines by arguing that vertical restraints primarily reflected efficiency considerations. More recently, industrial organization economists...
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for pro-competitive purposes and the wider benefit of society in order to achieve a higher standard of fairness in the …
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This paper explores value of fairness as a goal of competition law. It contrasts the developments in the US, where non … argument put forward is that a fairness-deprived antitrust policy which focuses solely on narrow interpretations of the concept … market power. At the same time, there is a risk of unpredictability attached to fairness considerations which must be …
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The period spanning 1992 through 2000 was a time of significant federal and state antitrust activity. A major contribution to this activity was the proliferation of high-profile antitrust cases in which a single nexus of facts and conduct spawned multiple actions at both the state and federal...
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The aim of this article is to explore the most recent appeals concerning illegal cartels under Article 101 TFEU by revealing the relevant principles underpinning both the substantive and the procedural review of price-fixing agreements. Arguments advancing a perceived ‘criminalisation' of the...
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For over three centuries, Anglo-American courts have assessed employee noncompete agreements under a Rule of Reason. Despite longstanding precedent, some now advocate banning all such agreements. These advocates contend that employers use superior bargaining power to impose such “contracts of...
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This article examines two important aspects of the Nutanix, the very first case brought and decided under the Hong Kong Competition Ordinance (Cap 619), which came into full effect back in 2015 as the first piece of cross-sector competition legislation in Hong Kong. Both aspects pertain to the...
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