Policy Summaries
Policy Briefings highlight the policy implications of a paper, while Executive Summaries are created to encapsulate the main points of a paper in which the policy implications are not so direct.
2012
Keep to sustain or keep to exploit? Why firms keep hard evidence
Executive Summary 12-5
The Impact of Foriegn Bank Entry in Emerging Markets: Knowledge spillovers or competitiive pressure
Executive Summary 12-4
Market Structure, Regulation and the Speed of Mobile Network Penetration Policy Briefing 12-3
Nonlinear Pricing and Tariff Differentiation Policy Briefing 12-2
Effects of Regulatory Reform on the Efficiency of Mobile Telecommunications Policy Briefing 12-1
2011
International Cooperation in Pharmaceutical Research Executive Summary 11-17
Innovation Races with the Possibility of Failure Executive Summary 11-16
The Assessment of Agreements for Which Temporary Antitrust Immunity is Sought: Competition Authority Perspective Download Executive Summary 11-15
Collusive Price Rigidity under Price-Matching Punishments Download Executive Summary 11-14
Cartel Ringleaders and the Corporate Leniency Program Download Policy Briefing 11-13
Tacital Dilatory Practice in Litigation: Evidence from EC Merger Proceedings Download Executive Summary 11-12
Storing Wind for a Rainy Day: What Kind of Electricity Does Denmark Export? Download Executive Summary 11-11
Credit Access and Social Welfare in France and America Download Policy Briefing 11-10
Disqualification Orders for Directors Involved in Cartels Download Policy Briefing 11-8
Injunctive Relief and Private Antitrust Enforcement Download Policy Briefing 11-7
How big is a tip of the iceberg? A parsimonious way to estimate cartel detection rate Download Policy Briefing 11-6
Early Settlement and Errors in Merger Control Download Executive Summary 11-5
The Long-term Impact of Wind Power on Electricity Prices and Generating Capacity Download Executive Summary 11-4
Financing Renewable Energy through Household Adoption of Green Electricity Tariffs: A Diffusion Model of an Induced Environment Market Download Policy Briefing 11-3
Avoidance Techniques. State Related Defences in International Antitrust Cases Download Policy Briefing 11-2
Three Private Firms and an Indepedent Regulator are Sufficient for Rapid Mobile Network Penetration Download (Updated Feb 2012) Policy Briefing 11-1
2010
Holding a Candle to Innovation in Concentrating Solar Power Technologies: A Study Drawing on Patent Data Download Executive Summary 10-24
Assessing Competition Policy: Methodologies, Gaps and Agenda for Future Research Download Policy Briefing 10-23
Non-discrimination clauses in the retail energy market Download Policy Briefing 10-22
Buyer Power and Price Discrimination: The Case of the UK Care Homes Market Download Policy Briefing 10-21
The Great Pharmaceutical Patent Robbery, and the Curious Case of the Chemical Foundation Download Executive Summary 10-20
Means not ends: Deterring discrimination through equivalence and functional separation Download Policy Briefing 10-19
Innovation and Competition in Generation and Retail Power Markets Download Policy Briefing 10-18
Dialectical Antitrust: An alternative insight into methodology of the EC competition law analysis in a period of economic downturn Download Policy Briefing 10-17
Explaining Focal Points: Cognitive Hierarchy Theory versus Team Reasoning Download Executive Summary 10-16
Exclusivity and Exclusion on Platform Markets Download Executive Summary 10-15
Slotting Allowances and Scarce Shelf Space Download Policy Briefing 10-14
Market-Share Contracts as Facilitating Practices Download Policy-Briefing 10-13
Myths and Untold Stories - Private Antitrust Enforcement in Germany Download Policy Briefing 10-12
Resale Price Maintenance and Restrictions on Dominant Firm and Industry-Wide Adoption Download Policy Briefing 10-11
European Competition vs. Global Competitiveness: Transferring EU Rules on State Aid and Public Procurement beyond Europe Download Executive Summary 10-10
Price Discrimination Based on Downstream Regulation: Evidence from the Market for SO2 Scrubbers Download Policy Briefing 10-9
Price low and then price high or price high and then price low? Download Executive Summary 10-8
Modelling international wind energy diffusion: Are the patterns of induced diffusion 'S' shaped? Download Policy Briefing 10-7
The All-Pay Auction with Non-Monotonic Payoff Download Executive Summary 10-6
The Equivalence of Contests Download Policy Briefing 10-5
When Are Excessive Prices Unfair? Download Policy Briefing 10-4
Unilateral versus Coordinated Effects: Comparing the Impact of Consumer Welfare of Alternative Merger Outcomes Download Policy Briefing 10-3
Professional Interpretation of the Standard of Proof: An Experimental Test on Merger Regulation Download Policy Briefing 10-2
Merger Remedies versus Efficiency Defence: An analysis of merging parties' litigation strategy in EC merger cases Download Policy Briefing 10-1
2009
Determinants of the success of remedy offers: Evidence from European Community mergers Download Policy Briefing 09-11
Are all mergers equally delay-averse? An empirical analysis of procedural delay in European Commission merger cases (1999-2008) Download Policy Briefing 09-10
Hear no Evil, See no Evil: Why Antitrust Compliance Programmes may be ineffective at Preventing Cartels Download Policy Briefing 09-9
Should the Joint Provision of Credit Insurance with Unsecured Lending be Prohibited? An Examination of the UK Payment Protection Insurance Market Download Policy Briefing 09-8
A firm-level panel-data Approach to Efficiency, Total Factor Productivity, Catch-Up and Innovation and Mobile Telecommunications Reform (1995-2007) Download Policy Briefing 09-6
Can the Commission use Article 82EC to Combat Tacit Collusion? Download Policy Briefing 09-5
Competition Policy, Bailouts and the Economic Crisis Download Policy Briefing 09-4
Market Frictions: A Unified Model of Search and Switching Costs Download Policy Briefing 09-3
The Regulatory Challenge to Branding: An Interpretation of UK Competition Authority Investigations 1950-2007 Download Policy Briefing 09-2
Exploitative Abuse in Article 82EC: Back to Basics? Download Policy Briefing 09-1
2008
Econometric Evidence on the Impacts of Privatization, New Entry and Independent Industry Regulator on Mobile Network Penetration and Expansion Download Policy Briefing 08-35
Does Product Complexity Matter for Competition in Experimental Markets? Download Executive Summary 08-33
Tacit versus Overt Collusion Firm Symmetries and Numbers: What's the Evidence? Download Policy Briefing 08-32
Consumer Welfare and Market Strucure in a Model of Competition between Open Source and Proprietary Software Download Policy Briefing 08-31
Effects of Changes in Public Policy on Efficiency and Productivity of General Hospitals in Vietnam Download Policy Briefing 08-30
Assessing the Efficacy of Structural Merger Remedies: Choosing Between Theories of Harm? Download Policy Briefing 08-28
Collusion and Strategic Favoritism in Organizations Download Policy Briefing 08-27
Matching Own Prices, Rivals' Prices, or Both Download Policy Briefing 08-26
'Consumer Welfare' and Article 82EC: Practice and Rhetoric Download Policy Briefing 08-25
European Commission Opinions to National Courts in Antitrust Cases: Consistent Application and the Judicial-Administrative Relationship Download Policy Briefing 08-24
Software Marketing on the Internet: the Use of Samples and Repositories Download Executive Summary 08-23
Understanding Perpetual R&D Races Download Executive Summary 08-22
Cartel Organization and Antitrust Enforcement Download Policy Briefing 08-21
Gasoline Prices Jump Up on Mondays: an Outcome of Aggressive Competition? Download Policy Briefing 08-20
The UK Cartel Offence: Lame Duck or Black Mamba? Download Policy Briefing 08-19
On the Design of Leniency Programs Download Policy Briefing 08-18
An Economic Assessment of EC Merger Control: 1958-2007 Download Executive Summary 08-17
Gain or Pain: Does Consumer Activity Reflect Utility Maximisation? Download Policy Briefing 08-15
Inconsistent Regulation, Market Structure and Broadband Adoption in the EU: a Dynamic Model Download Policy Briefing 08-14
The Role of Contribution among Defendants in Private Antitrust Litigation Download Policy Briefing 08-3
Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or "Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed" Download Policy Briefing 08-2
The Paradox of the Exclusion of Exploitative Abuse Download Policy Briefing 08-1
2007
Spurious Complexity and Common Standards in Markets for Consumer Goods Download Policy Briefing 07-20
Revisiting Modernisation: the European Commission, Policy Change and the Reform of EC Competition Policy Download Executive Summary 07-19
Different Rules for Different Owners: Does a Non-Competiting Patentee have a Right to Exclude? A Study of Post-eBay Cases Download Policy Briefing 07-18
Market-Share Contracts with Asymmetric Information Download Policy Briefing 07-17
Structural Remedies in Merger Regulation in a Cournot Framework Download Policy Briefing 07-16
Competition Policy Implications of Electronic Business-to-Business Marketplaces: Issues for Marketers Download Policy Briefing 07-15
Synchronisation and Staggering of Deposit Account Interest Rate Changes Download Policy Briefing 07-14
Exclusionary Discounts Download Policy Briefing 07-13
Survey of Public Attitudes to Price-Fixing and Cartel Enforcement in Britain Download Policy Briefing 07-12
Identifying Fuel Poverty Using Objective and Subjective Measures Download Policy Briefing 07-11
Efficiency and Price Effects of Horizontal Bank Mergers Download Executive Summary 07-9
Potential Impact of Electricity Reforms on Turkish Households Download Policy Briefing 07-8
Tacit Collusion, Firm Asymmetries and Numbers: Evidence from EC Merger Cases Download Policy Briefing 07-7
Do Consumers Switch to the Best Supplier? Download Policy Briefing 07-6
Searching for the Long-Lost Soul of Article 82EC Download Policy Briefing 07-5
Owner Motivations in the UK Speciality Food Sector Download Policy Briefing 07-4
Bargaining over Remedies in Merger Regulation Download Policy Briefing 07-3
Just Enough: Empowering Fixed-Line Telecommunications Consumers through a Quality of Service Information System Download Policy Briefing 07-2
The Regulatory Perception of the Marketing Function: An Interpretation of UK Competition Authority Investigations 1950-2005 Download Executive Summary 07-1
2006
Introducing Competition and Deregulating the British Domestic Energy Markets: a Legal and Economic Discussion Download Policy Briefing 06-20
The Role of State Attorneys General in U.S. Antitrust Policy: Public Enforcement through Private Enforcement Methods Download Policy Briefing 06-19
To Abuse or not to Abuse: Discrimination between Consumers Download Policy Briefing 06-18
Surcharging as a Facilitating Practice Download Policy Briefing 06-17
UK Merger Remedies Under Scrutiny Download Policy Briefing 06-16
Role of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) and Capital Adequacy in Banking Structure and Competition Download Policy Briefing 06-15
Interest Rate Clustering in Financial Services Markets Download Policy Briefing 06-14
Measuring Potential Gains from Mergers among Electricity Distribution Companies in Turkey using a Non-Parametric Model Download Policy Briefing 06-13
A Test of Perpetual R&D Races Download Executive Summary 06-11
Markets with Search and Switching Costs Download Policy Briefing 06-10
Competition Law Enforcement: the "Free-Riding" Plaintiff and Incentives for the Revelation of Private Information Download Policy Briefing 06-9
Chain-Store Pricing and the Structure of Retail Markets Download Policy Briefing 06-7
National Champions and the Two-Thirds Rule in EC Merger Control Download Policy Briefing 06-6
The Bankruptcy Wildcard in Cartel Cases Download Policy Briefing 06-5
Dynamics of Internet Banking Adoption Download Policy Briefing 06-3