This article asserts and operationalizes the principle that demand contestability determines
the competitive effects of loyalty rebates. We urge antitrust courts and enforcers to recognize …

When the telecommunications industry was liberalised in Europe and North America in the
1980s and 1990s, it inherited a legacy of monopoly providers whose footprint was national …

Wie können ökonomische Erkenntnisse bei der Auslegung und Konkretisierung des
Missbrauchsverbots nach Art. 102 AEUV besser genutzt werden? Diese Forschungsfrage …

Retrorabaty (inaczej: rabaty retrospektywne, retroaktywne, rabaty z mocą wsteczną) są
jednym z częściej spotykanych instrumentów polityki sprzedaży, który–zwłaszcza w ostatnim …

In the paper, the fundamental question is under what conditions loyalty discounts and
rebates adopted by a dominant firm cause anti-competitive effects. Fidelity schemes …

This article reviews an abuse of dominance decision against the incumbent domestic airline
in South Africa (SAA) taken in 2010 and upheld on appeal in 2011. This case placed …

This thesis re-examines a common assumption entering theoretical models of endogenous
switching costs. Through a discrete choice experiment we test the hypothesis that …

This paper was prepared as background for a discussion held at the OECD in June 2016 on
fidelity rebates. It explores why it is that firms use fidelity rebates, identifies some rationales …

This paper is aimed to clarify the definition and categorization of discounts as well as pro-
and anticompetitive effects of discounts. The author applied qualitative methods to the …

This research is set out to discuss how, in a competition law regime, the institutional
dynamics between courts and the enforcement agencies could have an impact on the law …