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Vertical integration & performance in residential real estate

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Wilson G. A., Jogia J., Millard G.

Critical Housing Analysis

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2023

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vol. 10

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issue 1

1-13

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Vertical integration is a growth strategy whereby a firm engages in multiple stages of the value chain. Although the benefits of vertical integration are well documented, few studies have examined its relevance in real estate. In response to this lack of research, this paper explores tenant perceptions of property managers’ vertical integration and effectiveness. The results of this international study show the benefits of vertical integration extend to residential real estate, such that renters are more trusting, loyal, committed, and desirable when they perceive their property manager as vertically integrated. This paper also uncovers a concering finding that many tenants are living in unaffordable rental accomodations, requiring further research. This study contributes to a large body of vertical integration literature and extends the empirical examinations to real estate and property management.

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Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties

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Kosowska-Gąstoł B.

Historia i Polityka

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2017

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issue 20(27)

9-29

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Europarties are regarded as multi-level organizations, like parties operating in federal or devolved states. Examined is whether they can even be treated as political parties sensu stricto and whether the concepts used to test the relations between the national and regional party structures (vertical integration, influence) could be used to study relationships between the national and European structures. It was indicated that Europarties can be considered both as the additional arenas of national parties’ activity and independent political actors consisted of national parties (multi-level parties). The second perspective was used to research 13 existing Europarties. In result, the similarities between the PES and PEL, but differences between the EPP and PES in term of vertical integration and influence were shown. Hence, in the article was proven that there is no one model of relations between the national and European party structures and the parties differ from each other as far as their internal structures are concerned.

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Using Competitors’ Data – a Role for Competition Law? Some Thoughts on the Amazon Marketplace Case

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Małobęcka-Szwast I.

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

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2021

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vol. 14

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issue 24

7-32

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Sur la base de l’enquête de la Commission sur les pratiques d’Amazon, l’article analyse si l’utilisation par Amazon de données sensibles provenant de détaillants indépendants qui vendent par l’intermédiaire de sa place de marché peut soulever des problèmes anticoncurrentiels et, dans l’affirmative, comment les aborder et, en particulier, si le droit de la concurrence est le bon outil pour répondre à ces préoccupations. Le comportement d’Amazon, qui fait l’objet d’une enquête de la Commission, ne s’inscrit pas facilement dans le cadre de théories de préjudice établies. Il est donc proposé de développer de nouvelles théories du préjudice qui seraient spécifiquement adaptées aux défis des marchés numériques et des modèles économiques des plateformes en ligne. Le comportement d’Amazon pourrait être considéré comme un parasitisme forcé, une copie prédatrice, un effet de levier abusif ou un auto-référencement. Il est également soutenu que certains des problèmes de concurrence pouvant découler de l’utilisation des données des concurrents par des plateformes d’intermédiation en ligne telles qu’Amazon pourraient être résolus plus efficacement par l’introduction d’une réglementation, telle que la legislation sur les marchés numériques.

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Based on the Commission’s investigation into Amazon’s practices, the article analyses whether Amazon’s use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell via its marketplace may raise anticompetitive concerns and, if so, how they should be tackled, in particular, whether competition law is the right tool to address these concerns. Amazon’s conduct, which is being investigated by the Commission, does not easily fit in with well-established theories of harm. Therefore, it is proposed to develop new theories of harm that would be specifically tailored to challenges of digital markets and online platforms’ business models. Amazon’s conduct could be regarded as a forced free-riding, predatory copying, abusive leveraging or self-preferencing. It is also argued that some of the competition concerns that may arise from the use of competitors’ data by online intermediation platforms such as Amazon could be more efficiently tackled by introducing a regulation, such as the Digital Markets Act.

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Vertical integration & performance in residential real estate

Are the Europarties Real Political Parties? National Parties’ Involvement in Multi-level Structures of European Political Parties

Using Competitors’ Data – a Role for Competition Law? Some Thoughts on the Amazon Marketplace Case