Competition Policy International
October 26, 2015
Economic Insights

Ariel Ezrachi (University of Oxford) & Maurice E. Stucke (University of Tennessee))
Our submission to the U.K. House of Lords, Internal Market Sub-Committee, explores the effects Big Data and technology have on competition dynamics. It reviews the use of technology to facilitate collusion, conscious parallelism, and unilateral price discrimination as well as the effects of online and mobile platforms.
 
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 Antitrust Buzz
 
Pete Levitas & Farrell Malone
The proper scope of the FTC's Section 5 enforcement authority has been a recurring issue in antitrust enforcement. In recent months there has been renewed attention to the issue of formal guidance on Section 5 enforcement, generated largely by FTC enforcement actions and related statements and speeches by FTC Commissioners.
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The Competition and Markets Authority said banks hava been able to "sit back and take their existing customers for granted".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
From The Archives

Gert-Jan Koopman 
The available evidence suggests that the European Commission's State Aid control of public assistance to the financial sector in the European Union during the period 2008-2010 has had a positive impact on both financial stability and competition in the EU's internal banking market.
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