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Issue 22 (November 2011)
CCP Research Bulletin: Multi-disciplinary Insights in Competition and Regulation
Articles in this issue:
How big is a tip of the iceberg? The probability of catching cartels (Peter Ormosi)
Injunctions - Mixing antitrust with contract disputes (Sebastian Peyer)
Putting a value on playing popular music (John Street)
Consumers in Competition Policy - A review of CCP's 7th annual conference (Catherine Waddams)
| Issue 21 (May 2011) CCP Research Bulletin: Multi-disciplinary Insights in Competition and Regulation Articles in this issue: News Corporation and Sky: is this a Berlusconi moment? (Shaun Hargreaves Heap) Procurement by dominant buyers (Morten Hviid) The Troubled Media Coverage of Cartel Enforcement (Andreas Stephan) The Proposed Merger of the OFT and the Competition Commission (Stephen Davies and Bruce Lyons) |  |
Issue 20 (November 2010):
Future Directions, Institutional Reform and Insights from Behavioural Economics
Articles in this issue:
'Liberating the NHS': Some Pitfalls in Introducing Healthcare Competition - Bruce Lyons
Reform of the energy regulator: an agenda for change - Michael Harker and Catherine Waddams
Why consumer sovereignty matters - even if we don't have coherent preferences - Robert Sugden
When Are Excessive Prices Unfair? - Pinar Akman and Luke Garrod
Director's Letter: News from CCP - Catherine Waddams
| Issue 19 (May 2010): How Effective Are Competition Interventions? Articles in this issue: Evaluating Competition Policies: State of Play and Directions for Future Research - Stephen Davies and Peter Ormosi Competition and Fairness: Non-discrimination clauses in the retail energy sector - Morten Hviid and Catherine Waddams Unilateral versus coordinated effects - Matthew Olczak The European Competition Network: A Network with a Difference - Hussein Kassim and Kathryn Wright CCP hosts joint London Conference - Leanne Denmark |  |
| Issue 18 (November 2009): CCP: The First Five Years and Beyond Articles in this issue: CCP celebrates fifth anniversary and renewed ESRC funding - Leanne Denmark Scandal: Cartels, Crime and the politics of getting away with it in the media - Heather Savigny Catch me if you can:why compliance programmes are unlikely to protect firms from hefty cartel fines - Andreas Stephan Promises, Promises - Morten Hviid New research casts light on Payment Protection Insurance - John Ashton Private enforcement does exist - new empirical evidence from Germany - Sebastian Peyer |  |
| Issue 17 (May 2009): Regulation, Mergers and Cartels 'It's Not Fair' - Competition in Energy - Catherine Waddams Mergers and Balancing the books in NHS Trusts - Pinar Guven-Uslu Merger Remedies versus Efficiency Defence: Does the Current Merger Remedy Practice Create a Disincentive to Reveal Efficiencies? - Peter Ormosi Does the Punishment fit the Crime? - Oindrila De Regulatory Reforms in Telecoms: The Role of an Independent Industry Regulator - Yan Li Baby, Phone Home! Children and the Market for Mobile Phones - Judith Mehta |  |
| Issue 16 (February 2009) Special Edition: Competition Policy and the Recession Articles in this issue... Competition Night? - Peter Freeman Origins of the Financial Crisis - Shaun Hargreaves Heap 'Too Good to Be True' - Morten Hviid Will the Recession Make Cartels More Likely and Cartel Enforcement More Difficult? - Andreas Stephan The Effectiveness of Base Rate Changes - John Ashton Competition Policy and the Economic Crisis - Bruce Lyons |  |
| Issue 15 (November 2008): Articles in this issue... Choosing the Best Energy Deal for You: CCP and the Public -Hieu Tran and Cheryl Whittaker The Benefits of Active Consumers - Luke Garrod and Morten Hviid 'Consumer Welfare' and Article 82EC: Practice and Rhetoric - Pinar Akman Why Do(n't) Consumers Switch Supplier? - Catherine WaddamsIdentifying and Evaluating the Level of Consumer Empowerment - Michael Harker and Judith Mehta Do We Need to be Nudged? - Robert Sugden |  |
| Issue 14 (May 2008): Prices and Competition: Resale Price Maintenance, Price Rigidity, Price-Fixing and Tying Articles in this issue... Changes in Productivity from Ending Resale Price Maintenance on Books -Matt Olczak The Paradox of Estate Agents' Prices - Catherine Ball That Unsettling Feeling: Secret Price-Fixing is not in itself Dishonest? Norris vs USA - Andreas Stephan The European Court of First Instance confirms in Microsoft that it is not ready to embrace a more economics-based approach to Article 82 EC - Liza Lovdahl Gormsen |  |
| Issue 13 (November 2007): Competition Policy Assessed: US to EU via UK Articles in this issue... News from the US: Report of th Antitrust Modernization Commission - Firat Cengiz Judicial Scrutiny of Merger Decision, Damages and the Schneider Electric Case - Kathryn Wright The Best Things in Life are Free - but the Free Things in Life aren't always the Best - Luke Garrod Efficiency Pass-Through and Horizaontal Mergers - John Ashton and Khac Pham |  |
| Issue 12 (May 2007): Local Food, Sectoral Reform, and Applying Competition Law to Business Articles in this issue... Supermarket Sourcing from your neck of the woods - Andrew Bugg Mixed Results from Reforming Vietnam's Insurance Industry - Khac Pham Electrifying Integration - Liz Hooper and Andrei Medvedev The Role of Marketing Practice in the Anticompetitive Act: Evidence from the UK - John Ashton and Andrew Pressey The Paradox of the Exclusion of Exploitative Abuse - Bruce Lyons |  |
| Issue 11 (November 2006): Consumers, Collusion and the Commission: Some Competition Concerns Articles in this issue... The 'Endesa File': National Champions and the Resurfacing of Tension in European Merger Control - Andrew Scott Fuel for Thought: Surcharges that Facilitate Higher Prices - Luke Garrod The Aims of Private Enforcement of Competition Law - Morten Hviid Behavioural Revolution: Workshop on Consumer Behaviour and Bounded Rationality - Tina Chang and Chris Wilson "No Worse than Shoplifting": Public Perceptions of Collusion at the 2006 BA Festival of Science - Andreas Stephan |  |
| Issue 10 (May 2006): Articles in this issue... Partnership Restriction in Legal Services: Let the Market Decide - Stephen Davies Private Enforcement: Fix it First or Wait and See? - Michael Harker Two Cheers for the EC Discussion Paper on Article 82 - Pinar Akman Making Firms an Offer They Can't Refuse?...Are You Sure? - Andreas Stephan |  |
| Issue 9 (November 2005):
Articles in this issue... Money Off for Bad Behaviour? - Morten Hviid and Andreas Stephan Whither Dominance? - Adrian Majumdar Public Interest Intervention in Media Mergers: Worth the Effort? - Andrew Scott One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Mehter March of Turkish Electicity Reform - Necmiddin Bagdadioglu |  |
| Issue 8 (May 2005): Articles in this issue... How Simple Simulations Would Improve EC Merger and Remedy Appraisal - Steve Davies and Bruce Lyons Competition in Bulk Water Supply: Regulation Still Holds the Fort? - Michael Harker Defining Markets Sequentially: A Fishy Business? - Peter Møllgaard Regulation, Competition Policy and Political Science - Hussein Kassim |  |
| Issue 7 (November 2004): Is Competition Policy Worth It Articles in this issue... The Benefits From Competition: Some Illustrative UK Cases - Steve Davies and Matt Olczak Do Comparative Energy Markets Make Rising Energy Prices Worse for Poor Consumers? - Catherine Waddams Regulation by Directors General and Independent Commissions: The Political Dimension - Lindsay Stirton Information Systems, Stakeholder Participation and the Deregulated Markets - Pat Barrow |  |
CCR Newsletters
Issue 6 (May 2004): From CCR to CCP
Issue 5 (November 2003): Unmuddling Merger Markets
Issue 4 (May 2003): CCR Awarded 10 Year Centre by ESRC
Issue 3 (September 2002): An Exciting Time for Competition
Issue 2 (Winter 2001/2002): Current Issues
Issue 1 (Summer 2001): Welcome to the First Issue