Industry 4.0 Significance to competition and the EU competition policy

EU Competition Policy for the Sports Broadcasting Industry

In the last twenty years, there has been a tremendous increase in salaries and transfer fees of professional sportsmen. In addition, the values of TV broadcasting rights for sporting events have risen sharply and many sports teams have developed in fullfledged businesses or are even traded on the stock market. This means that sport has developed from pure entertainment to entertainment industry...

The interface between EU competition policy and the CAP

Bank Competition and Risk-taking in the Iranian Banking Industry

Abstract: The banking industry is one of the main sectors of the economy of any country, that its health is a necessary condition to play a positive role in the economic development of that country. The health of the banking system is assessed by the financial stability criterion, which is evaluated by various risk-taking indexes. On the other hand, the banks risk-taking is affected by various...

Municipal waste collection: market competition and the EU policy

Two of the main pillars of the EU waste collection policy are the Proximity Principle and Self-Suffi ciency Principle. According to those, waste should be disposed as close as possible to where it has been produced. The effect of such provision is to increase the market power of local disposers, with possible undesirable consequences for other firms in the vertical chain. We show through a simp...

Coherence in EU Competition

EU competition law plays a central role in the process of European integration and has constantly been developing at a different pace. The dynamics of change in EU competition law have been quickened by the introduction of Regulation 1/2003 that has enabled a decentralised enforcement system of EU antitrust where NCAs and national courts have been empowered to apply articles 81 and 82 EC (now 1...