We have spent considerable time exploring and explaining the differences between healthy competition, which delivers benefits for all, as we have shown in our recent Telecoms report; and harmful competition, where companies compete on the basis of what economists called…
Rana Foroohar has written an excellent column in the Financial Times about our latest report, entitled Stakeholder Capitalism’s Next Frontier: Pro- or Anti-monopoly? co-written by our Michelle Meagher and Denise Hearn of the American Economic Liberties Project. The title speaks…
We have just issued a new report looking at the prospects of an apparently imminent merger announcement between Vodafone and 3/Three in the UK, which would reduce the number of mobile network operators (MNOs) from four to three.
Our report, prepared with Prof. Tommaso Valletti, head of economics at Imperial Business School (and a former Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission), draws on seven different international studies and estimates that this this merger will increase mobile prices in the UK considerably – by £5 – £25 a month on average for every user in the UK.
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