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Hub‐and‐Spoke Collusion With a Third‐Party Pricing Algorithm
ABSTRACT A data analytics company delivers an efficiency by supplying a pricing algorithm that allows prices to more effectively respond to demand variation. In this setting, I consider a new form of hub‐and‐spoke collusion: A data analytics company (hub) coordinates the prices of competitors (spokes) through its pricing algorithm.
Joseph E. Harrington Jr.
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Morality, Free Movement and Judicial Restraint at the European Court of Justice [PDF]
Dimitrios Doukas Lord Steyn has famously noted that ‘the law and morality are inextricably interwoven; to a large extent the law is simply formulated and declared morality’.
Doukas, Dimitrios
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ABSTRACT Seeing the EU roughly as a political system designed to remove the most essential political decisions from democratic control, while in a large part abiding by legal frameworks, we could speak about an opposition between technocratic legalism and democracy.
Dimitry V. Kochenov +1 more
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Economic Dependence: A New Frontier in EU Competition Law?
ABSTRACT This paper argues for the recognition of economic dependence as a relevant concept within EU competition law, moving beyond the traditional—yet limited—dominance‐based framework of Article 102 TFEU. Comparative analysis shows that this, or an equivalent concept, is already embedded in the domestic competition regimes of several EU Member ...
Jimena Tamayo Velasco
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Bank Capital and Misconduct Incentives
ABSTRACT This paper studies large banks' incentives to engage in misconduct by abusing their dominant position in the market for loans and by mis‐selling an add‐on financial product to depositors. We draw new connections between stability‐focused prudential regulation and misconduct by studying the impact of higher capital requirements on misconduct ...
Jacob Seifert
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Waste by any other name? National end‐of‐waste rulings and waste shipments
Abstract Transitioning to a circular economy is one of the main environmental objectives of the European Union. The circular economy aims to achieve more efficient resource utilisation, minimisation of waste and harnessing waste as a raw material. Moreover, many circular economy provisions lay down requirements and objectives for increased recycling ...
Topi Turunen
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The European Union in a Geo‐Economic World: Towards a New Inter‐Institutional Balance?
Abstract The EU's ‘geo‐economic turn’ has led to a blurring of the boundaries between EU trade and security policies. Against this background, this article examines whether a new institutional balance is emerging in the field of EU economic security policies, in particular, between the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament as the three ...
Thomas Conzelmann, Sophie Vanhoonacker
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The Free Movement of Goods Principle Facing the Protection of National Public Health in the Absence of Harmonised Legislation: The Case of Processing Aids Used in the Manufacture of Foodstuffs [PDF]
The free movement of goods is a fundamental principle under EU law: a product lawfully manufactured and/or marketed in one Member State is, in principle, entitled to be marketed in another EU Member State.
Nicole Coutrelis, Isabelle Weber
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ABSTRACT This article asks “who controls the controllers” now that the European Commission—long responsible for controlling the conduct of industrial policy in the EU's internal market—increasingly pursues its own industrial policy objectives. We draw on delegation theory to establish why the Commission should be held accountable for its industrial ...
Sebastian Diessner, Christy A. Petit
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Regulatory Means for Interventionist Ends: GBER and the Transformation of the EU State Aid Regime
ABSTRACT Despite its new‐found penchant for market interventionism, the European Union (EU) is often portrayed as lacking the fiscal and administrative capacity to conduct industrial policy. The EU can regulate markets, the conventional wisdom goes, but not steer them in specific directions.
Fabio Bulfone +2 more
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