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Open Competition or Discrimination on Tracks? Examples of Anti-Competitive Behaviour of The Deutsche Bahn

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Nigrin T.

Review of Economic Perspectives

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2014

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vol. 14

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issue 1

16-33

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The article provides an analysis of a competitive situation in railway transport in Germany and defines areas where the Deutsche Bahn holding, which integrates both infrastructure operators and carriers, may behave in an anti-competitive way. First of all, conditions of liberalisation in German railways and position of competition in partial sections of transport are introduced. Subsequently, areas which are - from the economic point of view - necessary for operation of competition in the railway sector are identified: it is the height of fees charged for utilisation of transport routes, fees for the use of railway stations, and finally, traction energy fees, too. On the basis of research into development in the last two decades, steps which are possible to consider to be (minimally) concealed anti-competitive behaviour of the Deutsche Bahn, was were revealed in all areas. This is substantiated by decisions of several decisive regulatory authorities, most predominantly of Bundesnetzagentur and courts, which have repeatedly ordered Deutsche Bahn to revise price lists and other terms. In consequence, the example of Deutsche Bahn demonstrated a great disadvantage of an integrated company including infrastructure administrator and carrier, as it is offered a great space for influencing competitive environment. In the German example, this often comprised in raising competitor´s costs which, however, do not manifest themselves in economic results of the holding company. Should transport policies of the state decide to separate the infrastructure administrator and the carrier, a great deal of hard-to-reveal and thus punishable “complications” preventing establishment of conditions of free competition on the railway market shall cease to exist.

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Charakter prawny zażalenia na postanowienia Prezesa Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów w świetle kodeksu postępowania cywilnego

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Błaszczak Ł.

Studia Prawno-Ekonomiczne

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2015

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vol. XCVI (96)

11-44

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Niniejszy artykuł dotyczy problematyki charakteru prawnego zażalenia na postanowienia Prezesa Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów. Jest to ważna problematyka i istotna z punktu widzenia postępowania cywilnego. Uwagi autora koncentrują się na ocenie, czy zażalenie to ma charakter środka zaskarżenia czy też powództwa. Ocena autora zmierza w kierunku, iż zażalenie na postanowienie Prezesa Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów jest zbliżone do powództwa jako środka ochrony prawnej.

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This article concerns the legal character of appeals against the orders of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection. This is an important issues and important from the point of view of Civil Procedure. Author’s Note focused on assessing whether the complaint is in the nature of an appeal or complaint. Rating author moving in the direction that the appeal against the decision of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection is close to the action as a means of legal protection.

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Are French NNs variants of N-PREP-N constructions? A corpus-based study of two competing patterns

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Radimský J.

Linguistica Pragensia

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2020

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vol. 30

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issue 2

156-186

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This study aims to provide a thorough empirical examination of the hypothesis that French subordinate Noun-Noun compounds (stylo-bille — ‘ballpoint pen’) are mere variants of corresponding phrasal lexemes or syntactic phrases with the structure Noun-Prep-(Det)-Noun (stylo à bille). On the basis of extensive corpus data from FrWac, it will be argued that the relationship and the competition between French NNs and NPNs differ with respect to different subtypes of NNs. On the one hand, attributive NNs cannot have NPN variants, and appositive NNs as well as NNs in which the N2 has a bound meaning have synonymous NPN variants only occasionally. On the other hand, for subordinate verbal-nexus NNs the NPNs represent stylistic variants which seem to be always available. The case of subordinate ground NNs proves to be more complex since, in this case, both patterns are in competition (Aronoff 2016); data discussed in this paper indicate that this competition is steered by phenomena of constructionalization. Since French NNs tend to be organized around paradigmatic families with repeated components, we have put forward the hypothesis that such paradigmatic regularity underpins a progressive formation of ‘niches’ in which new subordinate ground NNs win the competition with NPNs. Moreover, mechanisms of constructionalization even give rise to new subpatterns of subordinate ground NNs whose NPN variants are ungrammatical. The competition between French NNs and NPNs, also documented on diachronic data from Google n-grams, reflects a change in naming strategies in French, especially from the 1960s onwards.

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Cet article vise à examiner empiriquement l’hypothèse selon laquelle les composés français de subordination du type Nom-Nom (stylo-bille) sont de simples variantes des synapsies ou des syntagmes nominaux correspondants avec la structure Nom-Prép-(Dét)-Nom (stylo à bille). En nous appuyant sur de nombreuses données extraites du corpus FrWac, nous défendons l’hypothèse selon laquelle la relation et la concurrence entre les NN et les NPN français diffèrent en fonction des sous-types de NN. D’une part, les NN attributifs ne peuvent pas avoir de variantes NPN, et les NN appositifs ainsi que les NN dans lesquels le N2 a un sens lié n’ont des variantes NPN synonymes qu’occasionnellement. En revanche, pour les NN subordonnés « verbal-nexus » les NPN représentent des variantes stylistiques qui semblent toujours disponibles. Le cas des NN subordonnés « ground » se révèle plus complexe puisque dans ce cas, les deux schémas sont en compétition (Aronoff 2016); les données discutées dans cet article indiquent que cette compétition est conditionnée par des phénomènes de constructionalisation. Étant donné que les NN français tendent à s’organiser autour de familles paradigmatiques à composantes répétées, nous avons avancé l’hypothèse qu’une telle régularité paradigmatique sous-tend une formation progressive de « niches » dans lesquelles de nouveaux NNs de subordination « ground » gagnent sur les NPN. De plus, les mécanismes de constructionalisation donnent même naissance à de nouveaux sous- jan radimský 157 patrons des NN pour lesquels les variantes NPN sont agrammaticales. Enfin, grâce aux données diachroniques de Google n-grams, il apparaît que la concurrence entre les NNs et les NPNs reflète un certain changement dans les stratégies de dénomination en français, notamment à partir des années 1960.

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Open Competition or Discrimination on Tracks? Examples of Anti-Competitive Behaviour of The Deutsche Bahn

Charakter prawny zażalenia na postanowienia Prezesa Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów w świetle kodeksu postępowania cywilnego

Are French NNs variants of N-PREP-N constructions? A corpus-based study of two competing patterns