Description
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the CRESSE Conferences held in Chania, Crete, from July 6th to 8th, 2012, and in Corfu from July 5th to 7th, 2013. The chapters address current policy issues in competition and regulation. The book contains contributions at the frontier of competition economics and regulation and provides perspectives on recent research findings in the field. Written by experts in their respective fields, the book brings together current thinking on market forces at play in imperfectly competitive industries, how firms use anti-competitive practices to their advantage and how competition policy and regulation can address market failures. It provides an in-depth analysis of various ongoing debates and offers fresh insights in terms of conceptual understanding, empirical findings and policy implications. The book contributes to our understanding of imperfectly competitive markets, anti-competitive practices and competition policy and regulation.
Table of ContentsCompetition: Market Consolidation and Pricing Developments in Grocery Retailing: A Case Study (Ratula Chakraborty, Paul W Dobson, Jonathan S Seaton and Michael Waterson); The Price Effects of Mergers in Airline Networks (Kai Huschelrath and Kathrin Muller); Pattern Asymmetry in the Pass-Through of Input Price Shocks in the Road Fuels Sector: New Evidence on the United Kingdom (Enrico Pesaresi, Conor Flanagan and Boryana Miteva); Better Product at Same Cost: Leader Innovation Generic Product Improvement (David J Balan and George Deltas); Industry Structure and Pricing Over the Business Cycle (Yossi Spiegel and Konrad Stahl); Price Competition between Platforms: The Case of eBay vs.Yahoo! Auctions (Stefan Behringer); Anticompetitive Practices: Cartel Sales Dynamics when Monitoring for Compliance is More Frequent than Punishment for Non-Compliance (Joseph E Harrington, Jr and Juan-Pablo Montero); Exploitation and Induced Tacit Collusion: A Classroom Experiment of Corporate Leniency Programs (Jeroen Hinloopen and Adriaan Soetevent); Quantity Discounts and Market Power: The Michelin Case Revisited (Liliane Giardino-Karlinger); Technology Transfer, Contracting, and Product Market Competition (Frago Kourandi, Sabina Sachtachtinskagia and Nikolaos Vettas); Competition Policy and Regulation: How Can Competition Policy and Competition-Policy Economics Contribute to Solving the Healthcare Crisis? (Michael L Katz); Regulation Mismatch in Tackling CO2 Emissions (Claude Crampes); Public Policies in Investment-Intensive Industries (Giovanni Immordino and Michele Polo); The Role of Legal Principles in the Economic Analysis of Competition Policy (Harold Houba, Evgenia Motchenkova and Quan Wen); Deterrence in Competition Law (Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Cristiana Vitale); The Risks and Tricks in Public-Private Partnerships (Elisabetta Iossa, Giancarlo Spagnolo and Mercedes Vellez);
