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Adding uncertainty to incentivise investments in risky areas

May 25, 2023
An economic perspective on how the European Commission’s proposal to direct incentives towards areas of high unmet medical...

Who moves first? The quest for clarity on how to assess sustainability agreements

May 2, 2023
A chicken-and-egg problem hinders the initiation of sustainability agreements Collaboration between companies can contribute to climate change goals...

Parcel delivery services for e-commerce shoppers in Sweden

February 6, 2023
Longer delivery times for letters and no need to designate a provider for e-commerce delivery services. These are...

Final Basel III: Impact on capital costs and prices for European banks

January 11, 2023
New regulation could change the competitive landscape in banking There has been a lot of discussion in recent...

The Digital Markets Act and the role of economics

November 24, 2022
The final version of the Digital Markets Act has now been approved. It represents a significant overhaul of...

Cargotec/Konecranes: red card to mix-and-match remedies?

April 7, 2022
In a recent decision, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority blocked the proposed merger between Cargotec Corporation...

BOEM sells seabed off the seashore

March 29, 2022
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) recently held an auction to allocate offshore lease sites in the...

Do you know your funding gap?

March 16, 2022
New guidelines open for more state aid to green investments, but applicants should expect more focus on the...

Digital competition enforcement in the Nordics

March 10, 2022
Digital markets and platforms have increasingly attracted the attention of Nordic competition authorities in recent years. The interest...

Economics of Potential Competition

February 21, 2022
Potential competition is an economic force not yet shaping competition in a given market, but which has the...

Gone with the wind: Foregone revenues in the Danish Thor tender

December 13, 2021
A competitive tender process for the Thor offshore wind farm was recently concluded in Denmark. The German energy...

Switching it up: a closer look at bidding patterns in the US 3.45 GHz auction

December 9, 2021
The recent US 3.45 GHz auction shows interesting bidding patterns that can have implications for auction design. The...

Auction design in the recent Portuguese 5G auction – what went wrong?

November 10, 2021
The recently concluded Portuguese 5G auction is a good example of why auction design matters. The auction sold...

The state of play in the Greenlandic business environment

October 11, 2021
Greenland’s economy is still greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some sectors, however, show some early signs of...

Beyond the policy debate: How to quantify sustainability benefits in competition cases – Lessons learned from environmental economics

September 24, 2021
The competition community is currently busy discussing the role of competition policy in supporting the Green Deal and...

5G Spectrum auctions in Europe – Policy objectives and auction design

September 22, 2021
For the rollout of 5G - the newest generation of mobile technology - mobile network operators (MNOs) require...