European Competition Policy in International Markets

Competition and Competition Policy in Emerging Markets: International and Developmental Dimensions

This paper examines the role of competition policy in emerging markets from a developmental and international perspective. The main issues addressed include the following: • The state of competition and competition policy in developing countries; • The relationship between competition, competition policy and economic development; • The implications of the recent new advances in the theory of in...

Competition on European Energy Markets

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Competition policy: The challenge of digital markets

International competition in vertically differentiated markets with innovation and imitation: Trade policy versus Free trade∗

The important characteristic of international competition between firms from developed and less developed countries is vertical product differentiation, where firms’ quality choices are strategic decisions. We consider a model with sequential quality choice and the possibility of imitation, and compare positive and normative aspects of this setup in free trade and under strategic trade policy. ...

International Competition Policy: Information Sharing Between National Competition Authorities

Using a common agency relationship where the agent has private information about its costs, I study the impact of the introduction of an information system that obliges each national competition authority to give information about the …rms it has prosecuted when requested by another competition authority. I identify the conditions under which an "information-sharing system" is bene…cal for each...