Topical Articles

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Slide presentation on "Diseno Regulatorio en Materia de Proteccion de la Competencia (Subastas)" by David Harbord for Perspectivas del Derecho a la Competencia en Colombia: XX Anos del Decreto 2153 de 1992, Cartagena, 2 August 2012. English version.

"The BAT/Protabaco Merger: Unilateral Effects, Tacit Collusion and Multimarket Oligopoly" by David Harbord and Alvaro Riascos. Published in the European Competition Law Review, Vol. 32, Issue 11, pp. 539-542, 2011. A Spanish version of this article appeared on the Foco Economico website on 7 June 2011 here.

"Welfare Effects of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK" by David Harbord and Steffen Hoernig, 20 August 2010. A short article summarizing the results of our paper "Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)".

"Call Externalities, Network Effects and Market Power: The Orange/T-Mobile Merger" by David Harbord and Steffen Hoernig, 20 August 2010. Another short article summarizing the results of our paper "Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)". An edited version of this article appeared on the VoxEU website on 28 September 2010 here.

Slide presentation on "Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)" by David Harbord and Steffen Hoernig, for the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) Conference, Istanbul, 3 September 2010.

"Network-Based Price Discrimination and Bill and Keep vs. Cost-Based Regulation of Mobile Termination Rates" by David Harbord and Marco Pagnozzi, Review of Network Economics, Vol. 9 (1), March 2010.

Slide presentation on "Network-Based Price Discrimination and Bill and Keep vs. Cost-Based Regulation of Mobile Termination Rates" by David Harbord. Lecture delivered to the Economic Regulation Master Class, Interconnect Communications, Bath, 22 October 2009.

"Bargaining Over Fixed-to-Mobile Termination Rates: Countervailing Buyer Power as a Constraint on Monopoly Power" by Ken Binmore and David Harbord. Published in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Vol. 1 (3), 449-472, 2005.

"Football Trials" by David Harbord and Stefan Szymanski. Published in the European Competition Law Review, 25, pp. 117 - 121, February 2004.

"Restricted View: The Rights and Wrongs of FA Premier League Broadcasting" by David Harbord and Stefan Szymanski. Published by the Consumers' Association, December 2003.

"Anti-Competitive Contracts in the UK Pay-TV Market" by David Harbord and Marco Ottaviani. Published in the European Competition Law Review, 23: 3, March 2002.

"Mis-Designing the UK Electricity Market" by David Harbord and Chris McCoy. Published in the European Competition Law Review 21: 5, May 2000.

"Market Definition in Oligopolistic and Vertically-Related Markets: Some Anomalies" by David Harbord and Georg von Graeventiz. Published in the European Competition Law Review, 21:3, March 2000.

"Toeholds, Takeovers and Football" by Ken Binmore and David Harbord. Published in the European Competition Law Review, 21: 2, February 2000.

"The Airtours Case: Collective Dominance and Implicit Collusion in European Merger Analysis" by David Harbord, January 2000.