Overview

This state-of-the-art volume highlights important recent research contributions covering all the significant themes surrounding competition policy and regulation, including financial regulation and multisided markets. Bringing scholars and policy makers to the frontiers of research and addressing the critical issues of the day, the book presents original important new theoretical and empirical results. The distinguished contributors include: P. Agrel, K. Alexander, J. Cremer, X. Dassiou, G. Deltas, F. Etro, L. Filistrucchi, P. Fotis, M. Gilli, J. Harrington Jr, T. Huertas, M. Ivaldi, B. Jullien, V. Marques, M. Peitz, Y. Spiegel, E. Tarrantino and G. Wood. Recent Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation will prove insightful for academic economists, consultants and policy makers interested in these fields.

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Author:   Joseph E. Harrington Jr ,  Yannis Katsoulacos
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781781005682

ISBN 10:   1781005680
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   29 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction Joseph E. Harrington Jr and Yannis Katsoulacos PART I: COMPETITION POLICY AND RELATED ISSUES 1. Switching Costs and Network Effects in Competition Policy Jacques Cremer and Gary Biglaiser 2. Corporate Leniency with Private Information: An Exploratory Example Joseph E. Harrington Jr 3. The Economics of Pending Patents Johannes Koenen and Martin Peitz 4. Testing for the Presence of a Maverick in the French Audit Industry Marc Ivaldi, Sebastien Mitraille and Catherine Muller 5. Optimal Decisions in Two-stage Bundling Xeni Dassiou and Dionysius Glycopantis 6. Competition Policy and Firm's Damages Panagiotis N. Fotis 7. Social-Welfare-Enhancing Collusion and Trade George Deltas, Alberto Salvo and Helder Vasconcelos PART II: ONLINE SEARCH, ADVERTISING AND TWO-SIDED MARKETS 8. A Note on Vertical Search Engines' Foreclosure Emanuele Tarantino 9. Issues in Online Advertising and Competition Policy: A Two-sided Market Perspective Emilio Calvano and Bruno Jullien 10. Assessing Unilateral Merger Effects in the Dutch Daily Newspaper Market Lapo Filistrucchi, Tobias J. Klein and Thomas O. Michielsen 11. Leadership in Multi-sided Markets and Dominance in Online Advertising Federico Etro PART III: REGULATION 12. Bargaining and Collusion in a Regulatory Model Raffaele Fiocco and Mario Gilli 13. Investment and the Strategic Role of Capital Structure in Regulated Industries: Theory and Evidence Carlo Cambini, Laura Rondi and Yossi Spiegel 14. Rethinking Regulatory Capture Per J. Agrell and Axel Gautier 15. Can Structural Models be Useful to Understand the Electricity Wholesale Markets? An Application to Spain Vitor Marques, Adelino Fortunato and Isabel Soares PART IV: FINANCIAL REGULATION 16. Rebuilding International Financial Regulation and Basel III Kern Alexander 17. The Shock of the Old: The First Financial Crisis of the Twenty-first Century Geoffrey Wood 18. Fixing Finance: Are We There Yet? Thomas F. Huertas Index

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This volume collects a number of original, cutting-edge contributions that take the reader swiftly and easily to the frontier of research on most of the current hot topics in industrial organization, antitrust and regulation. Skillfully edited by two outstanding leaders in the field, the volume will be a precious source for students, researchers and practitioners that need to figure out what research has achieved in recent years on these important policy issues. --- Giancarlo Spagnolo, SITE - Stockholm School of Economics and University of Tor Vergata, Sweden

'This volume collects a number of original, cutting-edge contributions that take the reader swiftly and easily to the frontier of research on most of the current hot topics in industrial organization, antitrust and regulation. Skillfully edited by two outstanding leaders in the field, the volume will be a precious source for students, researchers and practitioners that need to figure out what research has achieved in recent years on these important policy issues.' -- Giancarlo Spagnolo, SITE - Stockholm School of Economics and University of Tor Vergata, Sweden

This volume collects a number of original, cutting-edge contributions that take the reader swiftly and easily to the frontier of research on most of the current hot topics in industrial organization, antitrust and regulation. Skillfully edited by two outstanding leaders in the field, the volume will be a precious source for students, researchers and practitioners that need to figure out what research has achieved in recent years on these important policy issues. --- Giancarlo Spagnolo, SITE - Stockholm School of Economics and University of Tor Vergata, Sweden

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Edited by Joseph E. Harrington Jr., University of Pennsylvania, US and Yannis Katsoulacos, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

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