Recent Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation

Edited by Joseph E. Harrington Jr., University of Pennsylvania, US and Yannis Katsoulacos, Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Contents:

Introduction
Joseph E. Harrington Jr and Yannis Katsoulacos

PART I: COMPETITION POLICY AND RELATED ISSUES
1. Switching Costs and Network Effects in Competition Policy
Jacques Crémer and Gary Biglaiser

2. Corporate Leniency with Private Information: An Exploratory Example
Joseph E. Harrington Jr

3. The Economics of Pending Patents
Johannes Koenen and Martin Peitz

4. Testing for the Presence of a Maverick in the French Audit Industry
Marc Ivaldi, Sébastien Mitraille and Catherine Muller

5. Optimal Decisions in Two-stage Bundling
Xeni Dassiou and Dionysius Glycopantis

6. Competition Policy and Firm’s Damages
Panagiotis N. Fotis

7. Social-Welfare-Enhancing Collusion and Trade
George Deltas, Alberto Salvo and Helder Vasconcelos

PART II: ONLINE SEARCH, ADVERTISING AND TWO-SIDED MARKETS
8. A Note on Vertical Search Engines’ Foreclosure
Emanuele Tarantino

9. Issues in Online Advertising and Competition Policy: A Two-sided Market Perspective
Emilio Calvano and Bruno Jullien

10. Assessing Unilateral Merger Effects in the Dutch Daily Newspaper Market
Lapo Filistrucchi, Tobias J. Klein and Thomas O. Michielsen

11. Leadership in Multi-sided Markets and Dominance in Online Advertising
Federico Etro

PART III: REGULATION
12. Bargaining and Collusion in a Regulatory Model
Raffaele Fiocco and Mario Gilli

13. Investment and the Strategic Role of Capital Structure in Regulated Industries: Theory and Evidence
Carlo Cambini, Laura Rondi and Yossi Spiegel

14. Rethinking Regulatory Capture
Per J. Agrell and Axel Gautier

15. Can Structural Models be Useful to Understand the Electricity Wholesale Markets? An Application to Spain
Vítor Marques, Adelino Fortunato and Isabel Soares

PART IV: FINANCIAL REGULATION
16. Rebuilding International Financial Regulation and Basel III
Kern Alexander

17. The Shock of the Old: The First Financial Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Geoffrey Wood

18. Fixing Finance: Are We There Yet?
Thomas F. Huertas

Index