Cases in European competition policy : the economic analysis / edited by Bruce Lyons

Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description: xviii, 492 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Creators: Lyons, Bruce

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Contents by potentially anticompetitive business practices -- Introduction: the transformation of competition policy in Europe / Bruce Lyons -- A. Anticompetitive behaviour by firms with market power -- A.1. Abuse of a dominant position -- 1. Michelin II - The treatment of rebates / Massimo Motta -- 2. Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case / Kai-Uwe Kuhn and John Van Reenen -- A.2. Market investigations -- 3. Mobile call termination in the UK: a competitive bottleneck? / Mark Armstrong and Julian Wright -- 4. Relationship between buyer and seller power in retailing: UK supermarkets (2000) / Paul W. Dobson -- B. Agreements between firms -- B.1. Cartels -- 5. The graphite electrodes cartel: fines which deter? / Morten Hviid and Andreas Stephan -- 6. Assessment of damages in the district heating pipe cartel / Peter Mollgaard -- B.2. Other horizontal agreements -- 7. Interchange fees in payment card systems: price remedies in a two-sided market / Jean-Charles Rochet -- 8. The Orders and Rules of British Horseracing: anticompetitive agreements or good governance of a multi-sided sport? / Bruce Lyons -- B.3. Vertical agreements -- 9. Efficiency enhancing or anticompetitive vertical restraints? Selective and exclusive car distribution in Europe / Frank Verboven -- 10. Beer - the ties that bind / Michael Waterson -- 11. Parallel trade of prescription medicines: the Glaxo Dual Pricing case / Patrick Rey and James S. Venit -- C. Mergers -- C.1. Measurement of unilateral effects -- 12. A merger in the insurance industry: much easier to measure unilateral effects than expected / Christian Gollier and Marc Ivaldi -- 13. Merger simulations of unilateral effects: what can we learn from the UK brewing industry? / Margaret E. Slade -- C.2. Coordinated effects -- 14. The ups and downs of the doctrine of collective dominance: using game theory for merger policy / Eliana Garces-Tolon, Damien Neven and Paul Seabright -- 15. Capacity constraints and irreversible investments: defending against collective dominance in UPM Kymmene/Norske Skog/Haindl / Kai-Uwe Kuhn and John Van Reenen -- C.3. Vertical and conglomerate effects -- 16. Vertical effects between natural gas and electricity production: the Neste-IVO merger in Finland / Rune Stenbacka -- 17. Horizontal, vertical and conglomerate effects: the GE-Honeywell merger in the EU / Xavier Vives and Gianandrea Staffiero.

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9780521886048 (hbk.)
052188604X (hbk.)
9780521713504 (pbk.)
0521713501 (pbk.)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-481) and index.

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