And in each case the commission claimed that the merger would reduce competition, increase monopolistic power, and thus lead to higher prices whereas America's trustbusters felt that neither deal would significantly reduce competition.In the GE-Honeywell case, Mario Monti, Europe's competition commissioner at the time, deployed a largely untested economic theory of "bundling".
Europe isn't a bundle of economic ties, it's a community of people, a shared destiny, and ideals.
On February 14th, it sent to Congress a bundle of economic reforms, including electricity and telecoms privatisation, measures to attract private investment in oil, and changes in the labour laws, as well as dollarisation itself.
Even if its voters approve a bundle of economic agreements with the EU in a referendum on May 21st, the government will stay cautious.The seven accords, ratified by parliament last year, cover such matters as air and road transport, some farm products, and the free movement of labour.
Banks that were "too big to fail" sparked a global economic crisis and burned bundles of taxpayers' cash.
Where there is less than perfect competition that is, most markets—economic models suggest that bundling sometimes benefits consumers and sometimes producers.
In addition, the text message intervention can be delivered alone or bundled with economic incentives [ 14, 19].
Economic outcomes are the net bundle of resources forgone due to an intervention valued at the opportunity cost of those resources (the value of their next best use or "opportunity").
But the agreement came under fire from human rights organizations, which warned that economic deals should only come bundled with demands for Mr. Nazarbayev's government to respect human rights and press freedoms.
Smart meter data are typically bundled with social economic data in analytics, such as meter geographic locations, weather conditions and user information, which makes the data sets very sizable and the analytics complex.
