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The implications of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement for promoting innovation and growth in the Digital Economy of the Asia-Pacific Region are examined. The Treaty is the first multilateral agreement to specifically take up economic and trade issues related to the Internet and includes ground-breaking provisions with respect to online privacy, cybersecurity, promotion of cross-border...
Industrial policy and competition policy are the basic form of state intervention in the economy. They have differences in many aspects. But they are not irreconcilable. It is very important how to effectively coordinate between industrial policy and competition policy. In this paper, we analyze the conflict between industrial policy and competition policy based on the content and the relations of...
This chapter focuses on the areas of labor and competition policy. Yet, as Diggins notes, the combination of tax cuts and increased defense spending not offset by reductions elsewhere in the budget owed less to a fiscal revolution propelled by faith in free markets than to a military Keynesianism that had been pursued in earnest since the Kennedy administration. Ronald Reagan was convinced that the...
Due to the governmentpsilas pro-competition policies, MVNO systems are emerging in Japan. In this paper, the author will evaluate the competition policy of the government encouraging MVNO system in the context of one-way access charge.
Joint ownership of production plants is a common feature of electricity markets in general. E.g., in Sweden the nuclear plants are, in different constellations, predominantly owned and controlled by the three largest electricity producers; Vattenfall, E.ON and Fortum, i.e., by the three major rivals that should be competing vigorously in the electricity market. The electricity wholesale market is...
Long-term vertical contracts remain a pervasive feature of European electricity markets and despite wide concerns over the ability of de-integrated markets to ensure an optimal allocation of risks, the Commission has constantly voiced strong concerns over their anti-competitive effects. However, due to the lack of decisions in electricity and the on-going modernization of EC competition policy, perceived...
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