Essays about: "anti-competitive effect"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words anti-competitive effect.

  1. 1. Anti-competitive: Things that Gain from Dispersion - An Application of Synthetic Controls in Ex-Post Merger Analysis

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Isak Thelander; Eliel Koivisto Stenström; [2021]
    Keywords : Ex-Post Merger Analysis; Antitrust; Synthetic Control; Sweden;

    Abstract : This thesis tests how 16 approved mergers which were subjected to an ex-ante investigation by the Swedish Competition Authority (SCA) between 2000-2015 affected consumer prices through a synthetic control methodology. Ex-post assessments of approved mergers' effect on prices are rare due to a lack of adequate controls for non-merger related price fluctuations. READ MORE

  3. 2. Restriction by Object: A Restriction Based Purely on Experience or Also on Effects?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Joar Lindén; [2021]
    Keywords : EU law; EU competition law; competition law; restriction by object; by object restriction; by object types of collusion; anti-competitive object; restriction by effect; context; economic and legal context; counterfactual assessment; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Article 101 TFEU prohibits agreements between undertakings that restrict competition either by object or effect. Restricting competition by object or effect are alternative conditions. Problematically, both the concept of a restriction by object and its relation to restrictions by effect are obscure. READ MORE

  4. 3. RPM and Object Restrictions – A Need for Change in EU Competition Policy? : A comparative analysis of the different approaches towards RPM in EU and US Antitrust Law

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Rebecca Johnsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Article 101 TFEU; Resale Price Maintenance; Object; Effect; Antitrust;

    Abstract : The United States and the European Union operate in the world’s two most powerful systems of competition law and policy, whose enforcement and judicial institutions employ similar concepts and legal language. Nevertheless, the two systems have reached different results across a number of significant antitrust issues. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Failing Firm Defence: Are the Failing Firm Defence Criteria Formal Conditions or a Tool to Help Assess Overall Effects of a Merger?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Frosti Haraldsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Failing Firm Defence; Merger Control; Competition Law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The failing firm defence is an exception to the underlying philosophy of merger control. When the failing firm defence is applied successfully mergers that have anti-competitive effects are approved, due to the fact that the competitive structure would deteriorate in a similar fashion in the absence of the merger. READ MORE

  6. 5. Algorithms and Collusion: Competition Law Challenges of Pricing Algorithms

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Samuel Dobrin; [2019]
    Keywords : Algorithms; Collusion; Competition Law; Pricing Algorithms; Algorithmic Collusion; Explicit Collusion; Tacit Collusion; Artificial Intelligence AI ; OECD; EU; USA; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to find possible measures to tackle algorithmic collusion, caused especially by pricing algorithms, from the perspective of competition law. This paper does not intend to analyse all possible measures that may exist, but rather, focus on a few measures that are seen reasonable. READ MORE