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Antitrust, Regulation and Competition brings together a group of well-known European and American academics to examine antitrust policies and competitive behaviour on a wide variety of topical cases and critical markets. Taking both a theoretical and applied perspective, the contributors examine issues such as entry and market concentration, auctions, technological innovation, privatization and the role of public firms, market transparency, the supply of product quality and multinational firms.
List of contents
Preface; L.Lambertini Market Transparency and Competition Policy; H.P.Møllgaard & P.B.Overgaard Spectrum Auctions Versus Beauty Contests: Costs and Benefits; A.Prat & T.M.Valletti Beyond the Spectrum Constraint: Concentration and Entry in the Broadcasting Industry; M.Motta and M.Polo Is it Really Wise to Design Policies in Support of New Firm Formation?; F.Lotti, E.Santarelli & M.Vivarelli On the Regulation of Vertically Differentiated Markets Through Minimum Quality Standards; G.Ecchia, L.Lambertini & C.Scarpa On Optimal Privatization; D.Sasaki & M.Wen The Public-Private Mix in Health Insurance; F.Barigozzi Competing Innovations and Antitrust Policy: Reflections on the Summit/VISX Case; V.Dennicolò On the Regulation of Multinational Banks; G.Calzolari & G.Loranth
About the author
FRANCESCA BARIGOZZI Università di Bologna, Italy
GIACOMO CALZOLARI Università di Bologna, Italy
VINCENZO DENICOLÒ Università di Bologna, Italy
GIULIO ECCHIA Università di Foggia, Italy
GYONGYI LORANTH University of London, UK
FRANCESCA LOTTI Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
H. PETER MØLLGAARD Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
MASSIMO MOTTA Instituto Universitario Europeo, Fiesole (Firenze), Italy
PER BALTZER OVERGAARD University of Aarhus, Denmark
MICHELE POLO IGIER, Milano e Università di Sassari, Italy
ANDREA PRAT Tilburg University, The Netherlands
ENRICO SANTARELLI Università di Bologna, Italy
DAN SASAKI University of Exeter, UK
CARLO SCARPA Università di Brescia, Italy
TOMMASO M. VALLETTI Imperial College, London, UK
MARCO VIVARELLI Università Cattolica, Piacenza, Italy
MEI WEN Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Summary
Antitrust, Regulation and Competition brings together a group of well-known European and American academics to examine antitrust policies and competitive behaviour on a wide variety of topical cases and critical markets. Taking both a theoretical and applied perspective, the contributors examine issues such as entry and market concentration, auctions, technological innovation, privatization and the role of public firms, market transparency, the supply of product quality and multinational firms.
