Danish Competition And Consumer Authority
Publication - Competitive Markets and Consumer Welfare
On a regular basis, we will publish articles on competition and consumer issues. Among other things, the articles present analyses and professional views in a short and accessible format.
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Benchmarking and Security of Supply in the Utilities Sector
In the utilities sector, integration of security of supply in benchmarking models could affect the incentive for monopoly companies to be economically efficient. In Denmark and many other countries, benchmarking models are used to imitate competitive pressure which does not otherwise exist among natural monopoly companies in the utilities sector. The aim is to boost the incentives for companies to make cost-effective decisions.
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Danish Water Section Economics 2010-2019
In this article, we describe recent years’ economic and efficiency trends in the Danish water sector.
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Excessive Pricing in Pharmaceutical Markets
Intervention against possible exploitative and excessive prices should always be considered carefully. However, the dynamics of pharmaceutical markets makes it particularly relevant for competition authorities to prioritise cases on unfair prices
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Consumers benefit from a standardised front page to loan offers
Consumer inactivity in the mortgage market reduces consumer welfare and providers’ incentive to innovate and compete. This has led The Danish Competition Council to recommend an introduction of a simple frontpage to mortgage loan offers based on an experimental study using behavioural insights.
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Behavioural Consumer Regulation
The government’s consumer policy strategy – Consumer in a digital world – has a strong focus on how rules and legal requirements affect both businesses and consumers in the new digital reality. The strategy has prompted the Competition and Consumer Authority to review all consumer-related legislation from a behavioural perspective.
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Improving the effectiveness of terms and conditions in online trade
This article reports the results of a lab experiment that successfully enabled consumers to take notice of terms and conditions (T&Cs) in an online shopping environment and use these more when actively choosing between products.
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The challenges for present and future competition enforcement
The Danish Competition and Consumer Authority hosted an international conference in March 2018 where leading European competition experts were gathered to discuss some of the hottest topics within the world of competition enforcement such as digitalization, income distribution, fairness, Brexit, the Facebook-case in Germany and more.
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The Danish Marketing Practices Act has been given a complete overhaul and is now more user-friendly
The Danish Marketing Practices Act has been given a complete overhaul, which makes it consistent with EU regulations. The new Act has been made more comprehensible for both businesses and consumers, and helps to reduce administrative burdens for businesses. The Danish Marketing Practices Act supports good, uniform consumer conditions and is technology neutral and therefore agile with regard technological developments. The Act comes into force on 1 July 2017.
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Better access to tenders for small and medium-sized companies
Public contracting entities conduct up to 3,000 EU tenders in Denmark every year. The competition for contracts contributes to efficient use of public resources.
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Children must learn about hidden advertising on social media
Children's use of social media has exploded in recent years, and their media consumption takes place on smartphones and tablets. This often leaves them alone with a large proportion of the advertising messages to which they are exposed. The Social Star teaching material is therefore intended to teach 5th-7th graders about bidden advertising on social media.
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