by 21st Century Competition | May 6, 2014 | Global Blogs
May 6, 2014 Earlier today, the C.D. Howe Institute issued a new report on the Canada/U.S. retail price gap issue entitled Sticker Shock: The Causes of the Canada-US Price Differential (authored by Nicholas Li). This new report argues that Canada/U.S. price differences...
by 21st Century Competition | May 6, 2014 | Global Blogs
Burges Salmon, United Kingdom Private damages litigation is an important complement to public enforcement of UK and EU competition law by the European Commission and national competition authorities (“NCAs”), such as the UK’s newly formed Competition...
by 21st Century Competition | May 6, 2014 | Global Blogs
TMC Asser Institute When the European Court of Justice (CJ) delivered its judgment in joined cases FA Premier League v QC Leisure and others (C-403/08) and Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services (C-429/08) (Murphy), it was deemed a radical game-changer for the...
by 21st Century Competition | May 6, 2014 | Global Blogs
Five US Internet service providers and one European ISP have been accused of abusing their dominant position by keeping last-mile service delivery congested and charging content providers higher costs for direct interconnection. According to reports, bandwidth...
by 21st Century Competition | May 6, 2014 | Global Blogs
May 5, 2014 Earlier today, the Canadian Competition Bureau issued something a little different – its inaugural “Annual Plan”, which evidently is part of its overall transparency and compliance initiatives. This short, strategic document includes a...
by 21st Century Competition | May 5, 2014 | Global Blogs
Bermuda-based financial services data provider Markit field an optimistic F-1 filing for its initial public offering Monday, demonstrating how the company can endure market regulation and the financial crisis with its reported earnings. But its IPO, reports say, could...
