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Even if Microsoft on occasion may have engaged in some sharp competitive practices, the EU’s competition authorities have not been content with slapping its wrists, but got involved in deeply intrusive remedies, including the unbundling of a media player from Microsoft’s operating system and mandating disclosure of industrial secrets embodied in Microsoft’s server software.
Yet the EU’s competition authorities persist in accusing Intel of exactly this form of irrational behavior.
The problem with “predatory pricing” is that the courts are very unlikely to be able to distinguish “unfair” prices from effective competition that is a boon to consumers.
Moreover, the rise of ISIS will have repercussions far beyond Iraq’s borders, as the organization competes with Al Qaeda to lead the global jihad – a competition that will undoubtedly involve violent efforts by both sides to demonstrate their anti-Western bona fides.
In 1996, however, the government opened the market to competition.
The biggest improvements for consumers, though, come not from privatization, but from competition.
A sound regulatory framework and effective enforcement are frequently necessary for introducing competition, as well as to protect investors and consumers in the presence of a newly-privatized firm that might otherwise be able to use its substantial market power to stifle and prevent competition.
But governments in developing countries are often accustomed to controlling all aspects of their economies and tend not to want regulators to promote competition.
Thus, even when regulatory agencies are crucial to encouraging competition in telecommunications, regulators are often given control over areas where there is no particular reason for government oversight.
It is irrelevant whether Internet regulations that fail to promote competition and protect consumers are passed by governments afraid of freely flowing information or, as in the case of the jailed entrepreneur, in order to protect established companies.
It would only increase the power, prestige, and resources of entrenched lobbies of established university professors who often prevent entry and competition.
The Anglophone strategy focuses on freeing up the remittance market by encouraging competition, relaxing regulatory constraints for non-bank operators, offering financial incentives, encouraging technical and financial innovation, and stimulating collaboration among market players.
It is not yet clear how import quotas will be allocated; but almost any quota-allocation system will stifle competition and innovation by favoring incumbents over new market entrants.
Morsi and the Brotherhood also faced competition from Saudi-backed Salafists.
The rallying cry was national competition, not international cooperation.
Every US President since 1992 has sought to refashion the US-Russian relationship and move it beyond the ideological and military competition of the Cold War.
Competition requires redundancy – three or four firms competing to accomplish the same task or deliver the same product, outdoing one another and ultimately advancing the market.
Taken all together, this will lead to increasing competition and more efficient European firms.
In future, the yardsticks for performance will be found in Japan and the United States, and that means increased competition for European firms.
After 3 years as CEO, Chubais decided to “restructure” UES, thinking that glib talk about competition and liberalization will garner him continued support from London and New York.
The second challenge regards the competition.
The rule had been out for review for years, but the Business Roundtable accused the SEC of having “failed to engage in evidence-based rulemaking,” because it did not assess the rule’s effects on “efficiency, competition, and capital formation,” as required by law.
A similar rule has been in place in Italy since 2005, and there is no sign that efficiency, competition, or capital formation has been affected.
It is no coincidence that the Caribbean and Africa do not have a presence in these disciplines at the highest levels of competition.
When that, too, proved ineffective at promoting competition, as countries used their national rules to block new entrants, the emphasis switched to maximum harmonization, with directives spelling out exactly how local rules must be applied across the EU.
And that will require a fundamental shift in mindset, from one of competition to one that emphasizes cooperation.
Nor were the auction’s designers concerned about fostering domestic competition.
And the process for selecting those partners should have the proper regulatory framework and concern for competition that the recent bungled auction lacked.
As a consequence of the ensuing tax competition, corporate-tax rates have fallen to 15-25% in most European countries.
Reformers have exposed the public sector to competition, not least from private providers, rendering it more efficient.
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