Competition Problems in Liberalized Telecommunication: Regulatory Solutions to Promote Effective Competition

Discusses the legal basis and rationale for the application of the facility doctrine to the electronic comm. sector, and argues for new regulatory responses to the emergence of collective dominant firms in an oligopolistic setting and to the potential of multifirm conduct to restrict competition through price squeezing and other tactics.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. The Over-Regulation Trend and Ways to Avoid It. 2. Relevance of the Essential Facility Doctrine as a Remedy of Anticompetitive Unilateral Refusal of Access. 3. Restrictions to Market Access and Refusal to Supply Resulting from Multifirm Conduct. 4. Prevention of Competition through Anticompetitive Pricing: The Price Squeeze Abuse. 5. Challenges Facing Regulation and Competition Law Enforcement in the Electronic Communications Sector in Bulgaria. Final Conclusion. Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Stoyanova, M. Stoyanova, Milena Stoyanova
• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9789041127365
• ISBN: 978-90-411-2736-5
• No. of pages: 335
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 244 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: International Competition Law; International Competition Law
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law