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Has the conduct-based approach to competition law in South Africa led to consistent interpretations of harm to competition?

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2012
The Competition Act and certain recent decisions by the competition authorities are examined here to assess the extent to which South Africa’s conduct-based approach to competition law has led to consistent outcomes in the assessment of effects on ...
Ryan Hawthorne
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Institutional approach to assessing the transition to a circular economy: the case of the Kaliningrad region

open access: yesBaltic Region, 2021
The article discusses possible reasons for the failure of Russia’s waste management industry reform and highlights the ownership blurring as a factor that may hinder the transition to a circular economy, which has been proposed as one of the outcomes of ...
Andrey E. Shastitko   +3 more
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Measuring excessive pricing as an abuse of dominance – an assessment of the criteria used in the Harmony Gold/Mittal Steel complaint

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2012
The Competition Tribunal recently found Mittal Steel SA guilty of abusing its super-dominant position by charging excessive prices to the detriment of consumers of flat carbon steel products.
Reena das Nair
doaj   +1 more source

Digitalization in the Renewable Energy Sector—New Market Players

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Under the conditions of climate change and energy crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and the embargo on the supply of raw materials from Russia, high hopes are attached to the development of renewable energy in terms of meeting energy needs ...
Teresa Pakulska   +1 more
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Competition, Competitive Repulsion, and Coexistence [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1972
This manuscript is concerned with concepts rather than abstruse details or mathematics. Discussed are: competition; extended competition, proposed for competition in the strict sense, extended and modified by all related interactions including predation, parasitism, disease, and even cooperation, all of which can be “weapons of competition ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Gender and Competition [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap ...
Alison L. Booth, Alison L. Booth
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Merger Remedies in a Small Market Economy: Empirical Evidence from the Baltic States

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2013
The paper represents a comparative study of the merger remedies practices of the three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Based on comprehensive merger control data (2004-2011) and a comparative assessment of merger remedies imposed by the ...
Svetlicinii Alexandr, Lugenberg Külliki
doaj   +1 more source

Limiting collusion in the construction industry: A review of the bid-rigging settlement in South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2014
This paper undertakes a critical case analysis of the process and outcomes of the Competition Commission (CCSA) Fast Track Construction Settlement Project relative to the mandates of the CCSA and the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB).
Hardin Ratshisusu
doaj   +1 more source

Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurial innovations, competition and competition policy [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Economic Review, 2011
Abstract We construct a model where an entrepreneur can innovate for entry or for sale. It is shown that increased product market competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale. Increased competition not only reduces the profits of entrants and the acquirer of the inventions in a similar fashion, but also reduces the ...
Lars Persson   +2 more
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