Competition and consumer protection -- The economics of information -- Information and market power -- Agreements on information -- Exclusion by information -- "Confusopoly" and information asymmetries -- Privacy as an information product -- Information and intellectual property -- Restraint of...

This thesis analyzes the underlying strategic and behavioral motivation of firms' (anti) competitive conduct in oligopolistic markets.The first part of this thesis analyzes the strategic motivation for competitive and anti-competitive behavior of firms in an oligopolistic market where product...

Introduction to distribution -- Economics of distributin and franchising -- Resale pricing issues -- Customer and territorial restraints -- Tying and bundled discounts -- Exclusive dealing -- Price discrimination and related conduct -- Refusal to deal -- EU law of product distribution -- The...

Antitrust and the market mechanism -- Market power as a basis for antitrust enforcement: effects and measurement -- Monopoly, monopsony and attempts or conspiracies to monopolize -- Price predation -- Horizontal restraints -- Downstream power distribution restraints -- Distribution restraints...

Triggers and catalysts -- The process -- The agenda -- A more economic objective -- A more economic concept of harm -- A more economic concept of countervailing effects -- A more economic test -- A more economic methodology -- Advantages -- Compatibility with the case law -- Other concerns