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08-35: Econometric Evidence on the Impacts of Privatization, New Entry, and Independent Industry Regulator on Mobile Network Penetration and Expansion: Yan Li
08-34: 'Consumer' versus 'Customer': the Devil in the Detail: Pinar Akman
08-32: Tacit versus Overt Collusion Firm Asymmetries and Numbers: What’s the Evidence?: Stephen Davies and Matt Olczak
08-31: Consumer Welfare and Market Structure in a Model of Competition Between Open Source and Proprietary Software: Alexia Gaudeul
08-30: Effects of Changes in Public Policy on Efficiency and Productivity of General Hospitals in Vietnam: Pinar Guven Uslu and Thuy Pham Linh
08-29: Beyond the Cartel Law Handbook: How Corruption, Social Norms and Collectivist Business Cultures can Undermine Conventional Enforcement Tools: Andreas Stephan
08-28: Assessing the Efficacy of Structural Merger Remedies: Choosing Between Theories of Harm?: Stephen Davies and Matt Olczak
08-27: Collusion and Strategic Favoritism in Organizations: Zhijun Chen
08-26: Matching Own Prices, Rivals' Prices, or Both: Morten Hviid and Greg Shaffer
08-25: 'Consumer Welfare' and Article 82EC: Practice and Rhetoric: Pinar Pinar
08-24: European Commission Opinions to National Courts in Antitrust Cases: Consistent Application and the Judicial-Administrative Relationship: Kathryn Wright
08-23: Software Marketing on the Internet: the Use of Samples and Repositories: Alexia Gaudeul
08-22: Understanding Perpetual R&D Races: Yves Breitmoser, Jonathan Tan and Daniel Zizzo
08-21: Cartel Organization and Antitrust Enforcement: Zhijun Chen
08-20: Gasoline Prices Jump Up on Mondays: An Outcome of Aggressive Competition?: Øystein Foros and Frode Steen
08-19: The UK Cartel Offence: Lame Duck or Black Mamba?: Andreas Stephan
08-17: An Economic Assessment of EC Merger Control: 1957–2007: Bruce Lyons
08-16: Stock Market Event Studies and Competition Commission Inquiries: Lucy Beverley
08-15: Gain or Pain: Does Consumer Activity Reflect Utility Maximisation?: Yoonhee Chang and Catherine Waddams Price
08-3: The Role of Contribution among Defendants in Private Antitrust Litigation: Morten Hviid and Andrei Medvedev
08-2: Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed: Alexia Gaudeul
08-1: The Paradox of the Exclusion of Exploitative Abuse: Bruce Lyons
07-21: Passing-On Defense and Indirect Purchaser Standing in Actions for Damages against the Violations of Competition Law: what can the EC learn from the US?: Firat Cengiz
07-20: Spurious Complexity and Common Standards in Markets for Consumer Goods: Alexia Gaudeul and Robert Sugden
07-19: Revisiting Modernisation: the European Commission, Policy Change and the Reform of EC Competition Policy: Hussein Kassim and Kathryn Wright
07-18: Different Rules for Different Owners: Does a Non-Competing Patentee have a Right to Exclude? A Study of Post-eBay Cases: Sujitha Subramanian
07-17: Market-Share Contracts with Asymmetric Information: Adrian Majumdar and Greg Shaffer
07-16: Structural Remedies in Merger Regulation in a Cournot Framework: Andrei Medvedev
07-15: Competition Policy Implications of Electronic Business-to-Business Marketplaces: Issues for Marketers: Andrew Pressey and John Ashton
07-14: Synchronisation and Staggering of Deposit Account Interest Rate Changes: John Ashton
07-13: Exclusionary Discounts: Janusz Ordover and Greg Shaffer
07-12: Survey of Public Attitudes to Price-Fixing and Cartel Enforcement in Britain: Andreas Stephan
07-11: Identifying Fuel Poverty Using Objective and Subjective Measures: Catherine Waddams Price, Karl Brazier, Khac Pham, Laurence Mathieu and Wenjia Wang
07-10: Price Transparency and Consumer Naivety in a Competitive Market: Luke Garrod
07-9: Efficiency and Price Effects of Horizontal Bank Mergers: John Ashton and Khac Pham
07-8: Potential Impact of Electricity Reforms on Turkish Households: Necmi Bagdadioglu, Alparslan Basaran and Catherine Waddams Price
07-7: Tacit Collusion, Firm Asymmetries and Numbers: Evidence from EC Merger Cases: Stephen Davies, Matt Olczak and Heather Coles
07-6: Do Consumers Switch to the Best Supplier?: Chris Wilson and Catherine Waddams Price
07-5: Searching for the Long-Lost Soul of Article 82EC: Pinar Akman
07-4: Owner Motivations in the UK Speciality Food Sector: Andrew Bugg
07-3: Bargaining over Remedies in Merger Regulation: Bruce Lyons and Andrei Medvedev
07-2: Just Enough: Empowering Fixed-Line Telecommunications Consumers through a Quality of Service Information System: Patrick D. M. Barrow
07-1: The Regulatory Perception of the Marketing Function: an Interpretation of UK Competition Authority Investigations 1950-2005: John Ashton and Andrew Pressey
06-20: Introducing Competition and Deregulating the British Domestic Energy Markets: a Legal and Economic Discussion: Michael Harker and Catherine Waddams Price
06-19: The Role of State Attorneys General in U.S. Antitrust Policy: Public Enforcement through Private Enforcement Methods: Firat Cengiz
06-18: To Abuse, or not to Abuse: Discrimination between Consumers: Pinar Akman
06-17: Surcharging as a Facilitating Practice: Luke Garrod
06-16: UK Merger Remedies under Scrutiny: Michael Harker
06-15: Role of Non-Performing Loads (NPLs) and Capital Adequacy in Banking Structure and Competition: Yoonhee Chang
06-14: Interest Rate Clustering in UK Financial Services Markets: John Ashton and Robert Hudson
06-13: Measuring Potential Gains from Mergers among Electricity Distribution Companies in Turkey using a Non-Parametric Model: Necmiddin Bagdadioglu, Catherine Waddams Price and Thomas Weyman-Jones
06-11: A Test of Perpetual R&D Races: Yves Breitmoser, Jonathan Tan and Daniel Zizzo
06-10: Markets with Search and Switching Costs: Chris Wilson
06-9: Competition Law Enforcement: the "Free-Riding" Plaintiff and Incentives for the Revelation of Private Information: Michael Harker and Morten Hviid
06-8: Efficiency Defence, Administrative Fuzziness, and Commitment in Merger Regulation: Andrei Medvedev
06-7: Chain-store Pricing and the Structure of Retail Markets: Matt Olczak
06-6: National Champions and the Two-Thirds Rule in EC Merger Control: Andrew Scott
06-5: The Bankruptcy Wildcard in Cartel Cases: Andreas Stephan
06-4: Evolution of Banking Structure: Industrial Policy and Deregulation: Yoonhee Chang
06-2: Dynamics of Internet Banking Adoption: Yoonhee Chang
06-2: Collective Relationship Banking and Private Information Monitoring in Korea: Yoonhee Chang
05-10: An Empirical Assessment of the 1996 Leniency Notice: Andreas Stephan
05-9: The Effects of Consumer Protection on Sales Signs, Consumer Search and Competition: Chris Wilson
05-8: A Most-Favoured-Customer Guarantee with a Twist: Pinar Akman and Morten Hviid
05-7: Waterbed Effects and Buyer Mergers: Adrian Majumdar
05-6: The Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act: Has Information Pooling Led to Anticompetitive Behaviour in the US Beef Industry?: Andrew Bugg
05-5: Experience of Privatisation, Regulation and Competition: Lessons for Governments: Lesley Davies, Kathryn Wright and Catherine Waddams Price
05-2: Sequential Versus Simultaneous Market Delineation: The Relevant Antitrust Market for Salmon: Niels Haldrup, Peter Møllgaard and Claus Kastberg Nielsen
05-1: Raising Rivals' Fixed Costs: Matt Olczak
04-1: Price Deception, Market Power and Consumer Policy: Chris Wilson