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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Antitrust law."”.
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Post-privatisation problems in the Nigerian electricity sector : the roles of sector-specific regulation and antitrust law
… role that sector-specific regulation (SSR) and antitrust/competition law can and should play to solve them. <br/><br/>The thesis analyses the theoretical and conceptual basis for the neoliberal policies of electricity regulation, their assumptions, expectations, and outcomes in practice. It …
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Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) Commitment Disputes and Antitrust Law–An Analysis of Bundled Rebate Under FRAND Commitment Context
… of the royalty calculations and some other antitrust disputes. This Dissertation focuses on the issue of the FRAND commitment intertwined with the issues of bundled rebate and loyalty discount because only few scholars focus on researching this issue. The Qualcomm case is the example of this …
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How are price fixing agreements unfair?
Antitrust law is trapped in a labyrinth of its own making. The assumption that consumer welfare and efficiency is the sole concern of antitrust law conflicts with what people view as unfair about antitrust law. The present thesis advances the understanding of antitrust law by providing some …
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The Meaning and Requirements of the Misuse Doctrine in Patent and Copyright Law
… which is based on the ultimate purpose of IP law and policies, and distinguished from antitrust principles. Placing limitations on the exercise of IP rights has generated several overlapping limiting theories that have been incorporated into various areas of IP law. However, the requirements …
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International Merger Conflicts Between the U.S. and the EU and Their Implications on Development of Merger Controls of the Korean Antitrust Law a Comparative Study of the U.S. and EU Competition Laws with the Focus on the Ciba-Geigy/Sandoz, Boeing/McDonnell Douglas, and GE/Honeywell Cases
… fundamental differences between the U.S. and EU antitrust authorities—the Ciba-Geigy/Sandoz, Boeing/McDonnell Douglas and GE/Honeywell proposed mergers - triggered a vigorous debate between the U.S. and EU antitrust officials over merger policy. These merger conflicts between the U.S. and the EU …
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Rethinking International Antitrust Regulation : a Window On The Future Of International Trade Conflicts
… activities span across global markets. Yet antitrust laws regulating those activities remain national. The need to comply with multiple different domestic antitrust regimes exposes multinational corporations to additional transaction costs, delays, and uncertainty. A lack of international …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Firm Dynamics
… of the relationship between the enforcement of antitrust law and various macroeconomic outcomes such as productivity growth, firm entry rate, and investment in Research and Development for two cases: the US and Europe. For the US, I proxy antitrust enforcement by the relative share of antitrust …
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Franchising: A comparison of the EEC and US legislative approaches, with particular reference to territorial exclusivity.
… first part of the third chapter, deals with the antitrust law in the US to the extent it concerns franchise agreements. The second part of the third chapter examines franchise legislation to protect franchises in the US, both at the federal and at the state level. The study in both parts of the …
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Reforming the models of competition law and addressing intersectional discrimination in South Africa
… had achieved hegemonic status in competition/antitrust law when the Act was passed in 1998. The law diverged significantly from these schools due to general concerns about the concentration of the South African economy in the hands of a few whites and the barriers erected by apartheid that …
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Getting Out of Debt Poverty
… The dissertation extends a framework drawn from antitrust law to argue that state intervention in the marketplace is best understood as falling along a spectrum, from the provision of a competing product or service to the monopolisation of an entire industry. This framework elucidates how we …
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The impact of competition and internal corporate governance mechanism on bank performance: the case of North American and European countries
This thesis examined the effect of antitrust law and bank concentration on European and North American bank performance and managerial slack. This study empirically investigated the interrelated issues of antitrust policy, competition, and corporate governance and showed their significant roles in …
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On the Optimal Design of Leniency Programmes
… the underlying mechanics of leniency policies in antitrust. In Chapter 1, we provide a systematic overview of the most in�uential contribu- tions to the literature on collusion and leniency policies, with a focus on antitrust law. The survey elucidates the e¤ects of leniency programmes on cartel …
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The role of the Supreme Court in antitrust enforcement.
For more than one hundred years, American antitrust laws have helped to define the legal framework supporting the continuously expanding and developing American economy. This legal framework has not remained unchanged; rather, the antitrust laws have been revised and re-interpreted at fairly …
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Competition law liability for obtaining, maintaining, and asserting intellectual property rights subsequently declared invalid or not infringed
… to provide a theory of the extent of competition law liability applicable to conduct related to patents that are later found to be invalid or non-infringed, and to clarify the legal doctrine. Over more than a century, the IP-Competition Interface has both expanded and fractured, leaving most …
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Contributions to Antitrust Economics
… increase society's welfare. The establishment of antitrust regulation, aiming to safe guard competitive incentives within an industry without jeopardizing market dynamics, soon identifies the need of developing quantitative tools to assess the degree to which competition is being harmed by mergers …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Korea : a Legal Perspective
… ubiquity of CSR, however, Korean corporate law remains relatively silent on the issue, omitting to include any explicit provision governing the concept. In response to this lack of legislation, the country's corporate scholars have attempted to introduce American legal theories systems and …
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Competition Law Between Old Goals and New Challenges. New tools for a ‘multi-value’ approach vis-à-vis: Digitalisation, Inequalities, and Climate Changes
… the present work is whether and how competition law shall play a role in making our society more ‘sustainable’, intending this term in a broad meaning, and therefore linked to social, economic and environmental sustainability. The question raises from the awareness of the problems that are …
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Self-preferencing in the digital markets : a new offence under article 102 TFEU?
… the backdrop of several prominent and public antitrust cases initiated against large digital platforms, or gatekeepers, such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google, which have been accused of exploiting their dominant position in one market to allow favourable treatment of their products, …
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