Polish Leniency Programme and its Intersection with Private Enforcement of Competition Law [PDF]
This paper is devoted to the Polish leniency programme, including the conditions of obtaining lenient treatment and the applicable procedure. The type, scope and form of information that must be submitted are commented on as well as the marker system and
Ewelina Rumak, Piotr Sitarek
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From Open Banking Regulation to Platform Orchestration: The Evolution of Digital Platform Governance
ABSTRACT This study contributes to information systems (IS) scholarship by extending platform governance theory to regulatory contexts, explaining how regulatory forces co‐evolve with technological architectures to shape openness and control. This research examines the evolution of platform governance in the context of open banking, where regulatory ...
Priyadharshini Muthukannan +3 more
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Unveiling Synergy Gains in Divestitures Using Options Market Information1
ABSTRACT We use stock and options information to decompose and provide a practical measure of the market's beliefs about the different sources of value creation from divestitures. We find that divestitures generate economically significant synergy gains that exceed $1 billion for both acquirers and sellers.
Vinay Patel +2 more
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We Value Your Privacy: Behavior‐Based Pricing Under Endogenous Privacy
ABSTRACT We study a duopoly model of behavior‐based pricing in which consumers can either disclose or hide their data. We contrast two data policies. Under an open data policy, disclosed data is shared with all firms. In the unique equilibrium, all consumers disclose, and firms price discriminate, leading to welfare losses from inefficient poaching ...
Friederike Heiny +2 more
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How to Facilitate Damage Claims? Private Enforcement of Competition Rules in Croatia – Domestic and EU Law Perspective [PDF]
Ever since the Croatian Competition Agency started functioning in 1997, public enforcement of competition law has been the norm. Civil actions for breaches of competition law have been the exception in Croatia.
Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman
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RPM and Vertical Integration With Upstream Competition and Noncontractible Efforts
ABSTRACT We study RPM and vertical integration in a common agency setting with two differentiated manufacturers and one retailer, where consumer demand depends on both the manufacturers' and retailer's noncontractible efforts. Under vertical separation, the adoption of maximum RPM by both manufacturers is an equilibrium and intensifies competition ...
Michele Bisceglia +3 more
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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló +3 more
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Lost in translation? Injunctions and patent enforcement in a transatlantic perspective
Abstract As the European Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRED) marked the twentieth anniversary of its adoption, renewed calls have emerged for its revision, aimed at fostering a more effective application of the principle of proportionality in patent enforcement.
Giuseppe Colangelo
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Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies
ABSTRACT This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames.
Onna Malou van den Broek +3 more
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The Many Shades of Clouds: How Law Fails (Us) in Seeing Power in the Digital Economy
ABSTRACT Cloud infrastructures form the backbone of our contemporary (digital) production environment. Despite their centrality, legal and scholarly practice have not been treating cloud infrastructures as single objects of/for study. In other words, we have laws for regulating services and products that flow from (within) cloud infrastructures, but we
Petros Terzis +2 more
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