Policy Brief: Product Quality and Business Contracts – Intermediary Crude Oil...
BACKGROUND Crude oil plays an important role in the world economy. In the US, domestic oil production has increased, and increased in importance, and this holds the prospect of fundamentally changing...
View ArticlePolicy Briefing: The Impact of Competition Policy – What are the Known Unknowns?
BACKGROUND Evaluations of competition policy are increasingly common and typically establish that the consumer benefits from detected cases easily outweigh the costs of competition authorities. These...
View ArticleDr Peter Whelan publishes article on cartel criminalisation and due process...
Dr Peter Whelan (CCP and UEA Law School) has had his article, ‘Cartel Criminalisation and Due Process: the Challenge of Imposing Criminal Sanctions Alongside Administrative Sanctions within the EU’,...
View ArticleDr Peter Whelan publishes a case note on the CISAC judgment in the Journal of...
In April 2013 the General Court partially annulled the Commission’s CISAC decision on the basis that there was a lack of sufficient evidence to prove a concerted practice involving copyright collecting...
View ArticleExecutive Summary: Hospital Procurement with Concentrated Sellers – A Case...
Executive Summary of CCP Working Paper 13-13: Davies C and Lorgelly P, ‘Hospital Procurement with Concentrated Sellers: A Case Study of Hip Prostheses’ (PDF, 375KB). INTRODUCTION Total hip replacement...
View ArticlePolicy Briefing: Consumer behaviour in the British retail electricity market
Policy Briefing of CCP Working Paper 13-10: Flores M and Waddams Price C, ‘Consumer behaviour in the British retail electricity market’ (PDF, 759KB). BACKGROUND Consumer activity plays a crucial role...
View ArticlePolicy Briefing – ‘Mergers after cartels: How markets react to cartel breakdown’
Policy Briefing of CCP Working Paper 14-1: Davies S, Ormosi P and Graffenberger M, ‘Mergers after cartels: How markets react to cartel breakdown‘ (Available to download from Working Papers 2014 on the...
View ArticlePolicy Briefing: Is the Korean Innovation of Individual Informant Rewards a...
Policy Briefing of CCP Working Paper 14-3: Stephan A, ‘Is the Korean Innovation of Individual Informant Rewards a Viable Cartel Detection Tool?’. (Available to download from our Working Papers pages on...
View ArticlePolicy Briefing: Retail Price MFNs: Are they RPM ‘at its worst’?
Policy Briefing of CCP Working Paper 14-5: Amelia Fletcher and Morten Hviid, ‘Retail Price MFNs: Are they RPM ‘at its worst’?’. (Available to download from our Working Papers pages on the CCP website)....
View ArticleCCP Research Bulletin, Issue 27 – Now available
The Summer 2014 edition of the CCP Research Bulletin is now available for download [PDF, 332KB]. Articles in Issue 27 include: ‘At last, a competition inquiry for energy – will it bring relief or...
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