Title:Universal Services: Nucleus for a Social European Private Law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper is intended to develop the idea that the growing number of rules on universal services
allows for the introduction of a debate about whether these rules contain the nucleus of a new social
European private law. ...
Title:Unpriced Quality Number
Author(s):COURTY, PascalDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:A monopolist deliberately charges the same price for differentiated products when high quality products are more likely to be allocated to low type consumers under uniform pricing. The argument can explain the use of ...
Title:UOKiK v Microsoft: stosowanie prawa konkurencji w sektorach nowej gospodarki a ryzyko bledu regulacyjnego
Author(s):GORYWODA, Lukasz; JANCZUK-GORYWODA, AgnieszkaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:PSEAP Working PaperAbstract:In August 2008, the Polish Competition and Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) referred to the European Commission the results of its proceedings concerning the conditions of sale of laptops with a pre-installed Windows ...
Title:Urban Growth, Uninsured Risk and the Rural Origins of Aggregate Volatility
Author(s):POELHEKKE, StevenDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside
the developed world since 1960. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic
growth and job creation in most parts of the ...