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Our regular discussion pieces - the Competition Memos - provide an accessible and topical economic perspective on a recent development in competition policy. Frequently they offer an economic view on a recent decision. In other instances a recent case is used as an example of the application of an economic or statistical technique.

This is the full list of all the competition memos in the system.

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Publications

09 | 06 | 2008
June issue of CRAiNSIGHTS, our European Competition Practice newsletter

28 | 04 | 2008
"Regulatory intervention in the payment card industry by the Reserve Bank of Australia: Analysis of the evidence"
A review of the existing evidence on the impacts of the RBA`s payment system regulations, prepared by Robert Stillman, William Bishop, Kyla Malcolm and Nicole Hildebrandt and submitted to the RBA. Cover letter Report

19 | 03 | 2008
Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals: more harm than good?

12 | 03 | 2008
March issue of CRAiNSIGHTS, our European Competition Practice newsletter

11 | 12 | 2007
Incentives to innovate - another look at Microsoft's defence in the work group server case

30 | 11 | 2007
November issue of CRAiNSIGHTS, our European Competition Practice newsletter.

18 | 10 | 2007
"Similarities and Differences in the Use of Economics in Merger Cases by the European Commission and the US Agencies"
by Dr Andrea Coscelli and Dr Robert J. Levinson

05 | 10 | 2007
Efficiency and Anti-Competitive Effects of Tying
Andrea Coscelli and Geoff Edwards propose a rule of reason framework for the analysis of tying cases under Article 82. This paper is part of a collection of papers from the 2007 EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute. Click here to access the collection.

14 | 09 | 2007
Welcome to CRAiNSIGHTS, our European Competition Practice newsletter.

14 | 09 | 2007
"Mobile Call Termination"
A new paper on mobile termination issues presented by Mark Armstrong (UCL) at CRA's "European Telecoms: Hot Topics in Antitrust Enforcement" conference in Brussels on June 19th 2007.

20 | 08 | 2007
Ryanair/Aer Lingus: Flight Cancelled

23 | 07 | 2007
"Indirect Constraints and Captive Sales"
An overview of regulatory practice and competition case law with regard to indirect constraints and captive sales in market definition and market power assessments, prepared by CRA International for Ofcom in May 2006 by Geoff Edwards and Valter Sorana

13 | 02 | 2007
"What can be expected from the Commission`s non-horizontal merger guidelines?"
by Penelope Papandropoulos

06 | 11 | 2006
Market Definition in the Pharmaceutical Sector

15 | 08 | 2006
T-Mobile/tele.ring: analysing mavericks and efficiencies in "the first gap case"

01 | 08 | 2006
"The Merger Remedies Study - In Divestiture We Trust?"
by Papandropoulos and Tajana

26 | 06 | 2006
Economic Analysis and Judicial Review: The CFI on GE/Honeywell
From ZweR - Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht, 2/2006. With kind permission of RWS-Verlag, Cologne

06 | 06 | 2006
Article 82 Tying and Bundling
by Penelope Papandropoulos

29 | 11 | 2005
"Vertical Arithmetic"

13 | 04 | 2005
When are rebates exclusionary?
Published in the European Competition Law Review, September 2005

07 | 12 | 2004
Oracle/PeopleSoft: Assessing Competitive Effects

04 | 11 | 2004
The Competitive Effects of Headline Price Announcements

28 | 01 | 2004
Not so Rough?

01 | 11 | 2003
Quantitative Techniques in Competition Analysis
This publication (published originally by Lexecon Ltd, prior to the acquisition of Lexecon by CRA) explains, in simple terms, some of the key techniques Lexecon uses when looking at market definition issues. The approach is aimed at non-economists and explains the principles behind each method of analysis and how these have been applied in recent competition cases.

28 | 10 | 2003
Raising Rivals' Costs

11 | 06 | 2003
Merger to Monopoly

14 | 04 | 2003
Minority Shareholdings

14 | 11 | 2002
Tetra Laval/Sidel - The Limits of Leverage

25 | 09 | 2002
Accountancy Mergers Revisited

12 | 06 | 2002
The Airtours Appeal

30 | 04 | 2002
SME Banking

31 | 01 | 2002
Collective Dominance & Capacity Coordination

31 | 10 | 2001
GE/Honeywell - Share Shifting

31 | 08 | 2001
GE/Honeywell - Mixed Bundling

29 | 06 | 2001
Market Definition

31 | 01 | 2001
Buyer Power