REGULATORY COMPETITION AND INTERNATIONAL HARMONISATION Konstantine Gatsios* and Peter Holmes** * Athens University of Economics and Business‚ 76 Patission St‚ Athens 104-34‚ Greece; and CEPR. ** School of European Studies‚ University of Sussex‚ Brighton‚ BN1 9QN‚ UK. Tel : (01273) 678832‚ email p.holmes@sussex.ac.uk Abstract In recent years more attention has been paid to the extent to which various form of domestic regulatory policies could‚ deliberately or inadvertently‚ constitute
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The Dynamics of Competition 1.0 Competition: Introduction: All companies survive in an external environment that influences their working. The external environment is the foundation of resources essential for existence. On the other hand‚ as the competitive dynamics in a business change‚ companies working in that business have to alter the method they compete for required resources. This alteration in operations is necessary for the sustained attainment of key resources. In other words‚ as the
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theory of perfect competition 3 Section 2: The theory of monopoly 9 Section 3: The theory of monopolistic competition and oligopoly 13 Section 4: Resource allocation/externalities 19 Section 5: Suggested solutions 23 INTRODUCTION There are basically two types of market situation: (a) Perfect competition – in this market‚ firms have no influence; they are price takers. (b) Imperfect competition – this market includes monopoly‚ oligopoly and monopolistic competition; firms are price
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COMPETITION LAW IN INDIA‚ US & UK: A COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS (Internship Report-November 2012) Submitted by: Srishti Dutt Vth Year‚ B.A.LL.B (Hons.) National Law University Delhi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank the staff and members of the Competition Commission of India without whose help the Report would have been extremely tough to be completed. I would like to thank Dr. Satya Prakash‚ my supervisor and guide in helping me throughout the duration of my internship. My graititude
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Anti-Competitive Agreements-Underlying Concepts &Principles under the Competition Act‚ 2002 Competition commission of India DISSERTATION ON “Anti-competitive Agreements-UNDERLYING concepts & PRINCIPLES under the Competition ACt‚ 2002” In the partial fulfilment of internship programme at Competition Commission of India January- 2012 Under the supervision of:- Mr. Manoj Pandey (Director Law) Submitted By Pratima
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demand under circumstances where the two firms are identical with respect to size and costs of production. To understand this behaviour of the collusive duopolies‚ a mathematical tool called ‘Game Theory’ is used. The classic example for the duopoly analysis here is the ‘Prisoner ’s-dilemma game’ (shown in Appendix‚ 1.2). Within this game structure‚ a payoff matrix has been plotted‚ which shows the outcomes (each carrier’s profits) for all four combinations of collusion. By understanding the various
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CHAPTER 25 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly Topic Question numbers ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Monopolistic competition: definition; characteristics 1-17 2. Demand curve 18-24 3. Price-output behavior 25-78 4. Efficiency aspects 79-88 5. Oligopoly: definition; characteristics 89-112 6. Concentration ratio; Herfindahl Index 113-140 7. Game theory 141-156 8. Kinked-demand curve model 157-176
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Competition is an important characteristic of an economic order of society. It could be either constructive or destructive. Business organizations compete with one another. By increasing this competition‚ the government provides incentives for the production of quality and reasonably priced goods as well as helps lessen the inefficient use of resources. Competition is healthy for business enterprises. Competition may exist between organizations in different lines of business as well as between organizations
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INTRODUCTION Pure monopoly and perfect competition are two extreme cases of market structure. In reality‚ there are markets having large number of producers competing with each other in order to sell their product in the market. Thus‚ there is monopoly on the one hand and perfect competition‚ on the other hand. Such a mixture of monopoly and perfect competition is called monopolistic competition. It is a case of imperfect competition. The model of monopolistic competition describes a common market structure in
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RSP: Competition Essay Competition has played a huge role in history. You can say that it derived from human instinct as we compete to survive. Competition‚ by itself‚ has given history its wars‚ invasions‚ falls‚ etc. In other words‚ competition is the catalyst of history. In my perspective‚ competition can be derived from wealth‚ religion‚ and innovations. These three words alone are the reasons many empires thrived in history. They may be simple‚ but sometimes simplicity can be the ultimate sophistication
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