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.
Competitive assessment of price cycles in German retail gasoline markets
Keywords: gasoline, price cycles
Competition Law in Regulated Industries: On the Case and Scope for Intervention
Keywords: regulation, telecommunication
Comments on state aid reform: Some implications of an Effects-based approach.
Keywords: effects, state aid
Automatically renewable contracts hamper switching to competitors
On behalf of Ofcom, E.CA and Gregory Crawford empirically analysed the impact of BT’s automatically renewable contracts on customer switching behaviour between telecom providers. Accounting for a variety of confounding factors, including tenure, bundling, price discounts and self-selection into contracts, it was found that households on automatically renewable contracts switch 35% less often than comparable households on standard contracts. In light of these findings Ofcom decided to prohibit these contracts in the fixed-line voice and boradband sectors for residential and small-business customers.
Keywords: switching, telecoms
Assessment of a sustainable Internet model for the near future
Keywords: internet, net neutrality, regulation, white paper
Assessment of a sustainable internet model for the near future
Keywords: business brief, internet, net neutrality, regulation
Assessing Risk Sharing Proposals
Keywords: NGA Regulation
Are EC State aid rules compatible with attracting airlines through rebates?
Operating an airport profitably means generating sufficient traffic to cover operation costs at a margin which allows recovering fixed costs in the long run. Thus, airports often incentivise the opening of new routes or the establishing of hub status by individual airlines through rebate schemes. State-owned airports face the challenge to self-assess whether those rebates are in compliance with EC State aid rules. This note illustrates a simple but robust technique for such a self-assessment.
Keywords: rebates, state aid
Are Anti-Predation Rules in the Public Interest?
Keywords: anti-predation, competition, rules
Analysing the Relationship Between Regulations and Investment in the Telecom Sector
Keywords: investment, regulation, telecommunications