The Commission vs.Gazprom

Professor Alan Riley has a thoughtful article in Wall-Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443921504577643173700034222.html - on the stakes of the recent investigation opened by the European Commisson into EU dealings of the giant Gazprom.This investigation, like any other investigation of the European Commission, lies on real (and worrisome) antitrust issues....

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Smartphones, mobile networks and competition

The author's point in this aticle - http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-iphone-wireless-subsidies-20120912,0,7775846.story - is mostly correct. I would add that subsidizing handsets works in a similar way with taxation - a few benefit but everybody pays. The subsidies of the mobile phone companies are eventually costs, "shared" by all the subscribers of that...

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