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‘Private arrangement in Energy Agreement to withdraw production capacity from the market restricts competition’
In the October 25 issue of Dutch financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, Henk Don (member of the Board of ACM) wrote an opinion piece on the SER Energy Agreement.
Publication Visions & opinions -
The Art of Supervision
This Liber Amicorum has been created on the occasion of Pieter Kalbfleisch’s retirement in June 2011 as chairman of the Board of the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa).
Publication Visions & opinions -
Working paper on the effects of access regulation on investment and the implications for optimal access-price regulation
This working paper describes the effects of access regulation on telecommunications investments using theoretical and empirical studies.
Publication Studies -
Detailed explanation of ACM procedure regarding analyses of product market in hospital care
From now on, ACM will analyze product markets in hospital care at the patient group level. A DTC is designated as basic care if at least 20 general hospitals offer it. ACM explains its choices in this paper.
Publication Regulations -
Lower drug prices do not necessarily stand in the way of innovation
This opinion piece was published in Dutch financial newspaper het Financieele Dagblad on 8 May 2018.
Publication Visions & opinions -
Theon van Dijk will be ACM’s new Chief Economist
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has appointed Theon van Dijk as its new Chief Economist. Mr. Van Dijk will start his new position on October 1, 2019. He will succeed Jarig van Sinderen, who will retire at the end of this year.
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Non-bidding arrangements regarding online ads closely examined
Hotel chains make arrangements with booking websites not to advertise on search results for their brand names. These types of arrangements may lead to higher prices for consumers.
Publication Studies -
Welfare of today’s chicken and that of the ‘Chicken of Tomorrow’
In 2015, ACM blocked a planned agreement between producers, suppliers, and retailers aimed at improving the welfare of chickens: the ‘Chicken of Tomorrow’.
Publication Studies -
Dutch supermarkets offer chicken meat that is more sustainable without any anticompetitive agreements
Virtually all of the chicken meat varieties currently on offer have been produced under animal-friendlier conditions than what the failed joint initiative of producers and retailers, called the ‘Chicken of Tomorrow’, aimed to achieve.
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Research Decisio on the benefits of EU-wide account number portability
Decisio has developed a framework that can be used in Europe to quantify the benefits of EU-wide account number portability.
Publication Studies