Publications
E.CA Economists publish regularly in academic journals, competition and regulation journals and the more popular business press. We speak frequently at conferences, workshops and symposiums.
Screening and Merger Activity
Keywords: merger
Railway Alliances in EC Long-Distance Passenger Transport: A Competitive Assessment Post-Liberalization 2010
Keywords: liberalisation, railways, regulation
Quantification of harm to competition by national courts and competition agencies
Keywords: OECD, quantification of harm
Predicting the future: How pricing regulation affects drug development
In an effort to contain healthcare costs, governments around the world are imposing increasingly stricter pricing and reimbursement conditions in particular one “me-too” medicines. We study the consequences that this may have on pharmaceutical innovation in the context of a dynamic model of drug development. Our simulations show that the negative effects of price regulation on drug development are economically significant.
Keywords: innovation, price regulation
Owner Effect and Sunk Investments
Keywords: owner effect, sunk investments
Overcharge Estimations in Cartel Cases – Lessons Learned from a Recent Judgment on the German Paper Wholesaler Cartel
On the Effectiveness of Anti-Predation Rules
Keywords: anti-predation, rules
Ökonomische Analyse in der EU Wettbewerbspolitik. Ein erstes Resümee
Keywords: competition policy
NGA: Access Regulation, Investment, and Welfare. A Model Based Comparative Analysis
Keywords: broadband, investment, regulation
Mixed bundling in merger control
Many Article 102 TFEU cases have shown that the analysis of exclusionary behaviour is tricky – even after the conduct has taken place. The analysis of conglomerate effects such as tying and bundling in merger control is even more challenging: it requires analysing the potential harm from an ex ante perspective. This note considers the question of anti-competitive effects of mixed bundling in a merger of two regional newspapers as an example. It shows a simple technique based on advertising expenditure data that identifies a limited set of potentially harmed competitors.
Keywords: Art. 102 TFEU, merger