Today, BECCLE’s Tommy Gabrielsen will be presenting a paper on RPM, ‘Resale Price Maintenance with Secret Contracts and Retail Service Externalities’, at the Düsseldorf Institute of Competition Economics’ (DICE) Research Read More …
I dag ble den Franske Økonomen Jean Tirole tildelt nobelprisen i Økononmi. Tirole, som er professor ved Toulouse School of Economics, har skrevet læreboken som regnes som bibelen for mange Read More …
I Dagens Næringsliv onsdag 8. oktober, uttrykte Stein Erik Hagen bekymring for konkurransen i det norske dagligvaremarkedet som følge av Coops oppkjøp av ICA. Hagen foreslo et tillegg i konkurranseloven Read More …
We are pleased to invite you to a seminar on the interaction between the rules governing the award of public contracts – public procurement – and competition law, Thursday 30 Read More …
his week, the lawyers from the Faculty of Law, UoB, the research group for competition and market law, who are affiliated with BECCLE, are visiting Munich and the Max Planck institute for Innovation and Competition Read More …
The partnership between ICA and NorgesGruppen on procurement and distribution is controversial. Common sense among market players seems to be that size matters for profitability as well as for retail pricing. On Tuesday 14 October Kind and Foros will present their work in whcich they have set up a model which captures the fact that size might matter for retail pricing, and analyzes the effects that a partnership on distribution and procurement between rivals have on retail pricing. Furthermore, they have investigated whether there are incentives to form industry-wide partnerships. Read More …