Working Papers 2007
Passing-on Defense and Indirect Purchaser Standing in Actions for Damages against the Violation of Competition Law: what can the EC learn from the US? Firat Cengiz, November 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-21
Spurious Complexity and Common Standards in Markets for Consumer Goods Alexia Gaudeul and Robert Sugden, November 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-20
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Revisiting Modernisation: the European Commission, Policy Change and the Reform of EC Competition Policy Hussein Kassim and Kathryn Wright, August 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-19
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Different Rules for Different Owners: Does a Non-Competing Patentee have a Right to Exclude? A Study of Post-eBay Cases Sujitha Subramanian, September 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-18
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Market-Share Contracts with Asymmetric Information Adrian Majumdar and Greg Shaffer, July 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-17
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Structural Remedies in Merger Regulation in a Cournot Framework Andrei Medvedev, August 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-16
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Competition Policy Implications of Electronic Business-to-Business Marketplaces: Issues for Marketers Andrew Pressey and John Ashton, June 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-15
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Synchronisation and Staggering of Deposit Account Interest Rate Changes John Ashton, June 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-14
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Exclusionary Discounts Janusz Ordover and Greg Shaffer, June 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-13
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Survey of Public Attitudes to Price-Fixing and Cartel Enforcement in Britain Andreas Stephan, May 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-12
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Identifying Fuel Poverty Using Objective and Subjective Measures Catherine Waddams Price, Karl Brazier, Khac Pham, Laurence Mathieu and Wenjia Wang, May 2007 A previous version of this paper was available (CCP Working Paper 06-1).
CCP Working Paper 07-11
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Price Transparency and Consumer Naivety in a Competitive Market Luke Garrod, April 2008 (original version May 2007)
CCP Working Paper 07-10
Efficiency and Price Effects of Horizontal Bank Mergers John Ashton and Khac Pham, June 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-9
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Potential Impact of Electricity Reforms on Turkish Households Necmiddin Bagdadioglu, Alparslan Basaran and Catherine Waddams Price, April 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-8
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Tacit Collusion, Firm Asymmetries and Numbers: Evidence from EC Merger Cases Steve Davies and Matt Olczak, with Heather Coles, February 2010 *Previous version February 2008
CCP Working Paper 07-7
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Do Consumers Switch to the Best Supplier? Chris M. Wilson and Catherine Waddams Price, July 2007A previous version of this paper was titled "Irrationality in Consumers' Switching Decisions: When More Firms May Mean Less Benefit" (CCP Working Paper 05-4).
CCP Working Paper 07-6
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Searching for the Long-Lost Soul of Article 82EC Pinar Akman, March 2007CCP Working Paper 07-5, now published in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2009, 29(2), 267)
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Owner Motivations in the UK Speciality Food Sector Andrew Bugg, March 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-4
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Bargaining over Remedies in Merger Regulation Bruce Lyons and Andrei Medvedev, February 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-3
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Just Enough: Empowering Fixed-Line Telecommunications Consumers through a Quality of Service Information System Patrick Barrow, February 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-2
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The Regulatory Perception of the Marketing Function: an Interpretation of UK Competition Authority Investigations 1950-2005 John Ashton and Andrew Pressey, January 2007
CCP Working Paper 07-1
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Working Papers 2006
Introducing Competition and Deregulating the British Domestic Energy Markets: a Legal and Economic Discussion Michael Harker and Catherine Waddams Price, November 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-20
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The Role of State Attorneys General in U.S. Antitrust Policy: Public Enforcement through Private Enforcement Methods Firat Cengiz, November 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-19
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To Abuse or not to Abuse: Discrimination between Consumers Pinar Akman, November 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-18
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Surcharging as a Facilitating Practice Luke Garrod, October 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-17
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UK Merger Remedies Under Scrutiny Michael Harker, October 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-16
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Role of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) and Capital Adequacy in Banking Structure and Competition Yoonhee Tina Chang, September 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-15
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Interest Rate Clustering in UK Financial Services Markets John Ashton and Robert Hudson, October 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-14
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Measuring Potential Gains from Mergers among Electricity Distribution Companies in Turkey using a Non-Parametric Model Necmiddin Bagdadioglu, Catherine Waddams Price and Thomas Weyman-Jones, September 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-13
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Vertical and Horizontal Differentiation with Network Effects in the Competition between Open-Source and Proprietary Software Alexia Gaudeul, August 2006A previous version of this paper was titled "Differentiation and Network Effects in Open-Source Production" (CCP Working Paper 05-3)
CCP Working Paper 06-12: currently under revision
A Test of Perpetual R&D Races Yves Breitmoser, Jonathan HW Tan and Daniel John Zizzo, July 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-11
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Markets with Search and Switching Costs Chris Wilson, March 2007
CCP Working Paper 06-10: this paper has been updated to CCP Working Paper 09-3
Competition Law Enforcement: the "Free-Riding" Plaintiff and Incentives for the Revelation of Private Information Michael Harker and Morten Hviid, April 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-9
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Efficiency Defence, Administrative Fuzziness, and Commitment in Merger Regulation Andrei Medvedev, May 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-8
Chain-Store Pricing and the Structure of Retail Markets Matt Olczak, April 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-7
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National Champions and the Two-Thirds Rule in EC Merger Control Andrew Scott, April 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-6
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The Bankruptcy Wildcard in Cartel Cases Andreas Stephan, March 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-5
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Evolution of Banking Structure: Industrial Policy and Deregulation Yoonhee Tina Chang, December 2005
CCP Working Paper 06-4
Dynamics of Internet Banking Adoption Yoonhee Tina Chang, October 2005
CCP Working Paper 06-3
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Collective Relationship Banking and Private Information Monitoring in Korea Yoonhee Tina Chang, October 2005
CCP Working Paper 06-2
Identifying Fuel Poverty Using Objective and Subjective Measures Karl Brazier, Laurence Mathieu, Catherine Waddams Price and Wenjia Wang, January 2006
CCP Working Paper 06-1: this paper has been updated to CCP Working Paper 07-11
Working Papers 2005
An Empirical Assessment of the 1996 Leniency Notice Andreas Stephan, September 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-10
The Effects of Consumer Protection on Sales Signs, Consumer Search and Competition Chris Wilson, October 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-9
A Most-Favoured-Customer Guarantee with a Twist Pinar Akman and Morten Hviid, October 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-8
Waterbed Effects and Buyer Mergers Adrian Majumdar, June 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-7
The Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act: Has Information Pooling Led to Anticompetitive Behaviour in the US Beef Industry? Andy Bugg, May 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-6
Experience of Privatisation, Regulation and Competition: Lessons for Governments Lesley Davies, Kathryn Wright and Catherine Waddams Price, July 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-5
Irrationality in Consumers' Switching Decisions: When More Firms may Mean Less Benefit Chris Wilson and Catherine Waddams Price, October 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-4: paper has been updated to CCP Working Paper 07-6
Differentiation and Network Effects in Open Source Production Alexia Gaudeul CCP Working Paper 05-3 (currently under revision)
Sequential versus Simultaneous Market Delineation: The Relevant Antitrust Market for Salmon Niels Haldrup and Peter Møllgaard, March 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-2
Raising Rivals' Fixed Costs Matt Olczak, January 2005
CCP Working Paper 05-1
Working Papers 2004
Price Deception, Market Power and Consumer Policy Chris Wilson, September 2004
CCP Working Paper 04-1