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Chapter 15 Antitrust
Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007
This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...
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Predation and Mergers: Is Merger Law Counterproductive?
Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper shows that predation might help firms overcome the free riding problem of mergers by changing the … predators prefer predation technologies that destroy the prey's assets since they limit the negative effects of the subsequent … increase the incentives for predation by helping predators avoid the bidding competition. Moreover, the incentive for predation …
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Predation enforcement options: an evaluation in a Cournot framework
Hüschelrath, Kai; Weigand, Jürgen - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 35 (2013) 2, pp. 241-272
selected enforcement options in a Cournot-type duopoly predation model. Differentiating between a no rule approach, an ex ante …The paper characterises the building blocks of a framework to enforce anti-predation rules and subsequently evaluates …
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Merger Effects and Antitrust Enforcement : Evidence from US Retail
Bhattacharya, Vivek; Illanes, Gastón; Stillerman, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Through a model of enforcement, we find that agencies challenge mergers they expect …. Our findings inform the debate over whether antitrust enforcement has been lax …
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Fines, Leniency and Rewards in Antitrust: an Experiment
Bigoni, Maria; Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Le Coq, Chloé; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
law enforcement. …
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Determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program
Hoang, Cung Truong; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich - In: International Review of Law and Economics 40 (2014) C, pp. 15-23
We empirically investigate determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program. Applying a data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and 2011, we find that the probability of a firm becoming the...
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Ministererlaubnis für die Fusion Miba/Zollern : europäische Champions statt Wettbewerb?
Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019) 7, pp. 505-510
Nachdem das Bundeskartellamt die Fusion von Miba und Zollern abgelehnt hat, haben die beiden Unternehmen eine Ministererlaubnis beantragt. Dabei wurden bekannte, aber auch neue Gründe genannt, um einen Gemeinwohlvorteil des antikompetitiven Zusammenschlusses aufzuzeigen. Die Autoren untersuchen...
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The changing face of anti-trust in the world of Big Tech : collusion versus Monopolisation
Armoogum, Prishnee; Davies, Stephen; Mariuzzo, Franco - In: Cambridge journal of economics 46 (2022) 6, pp. 1455-1479
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Boosting Growth Through Greater Competition in Denmark
Jorgensen, Martin - 2005
This paper discusses ways of strengthening the competitive environment in order to help boost productivity performance in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including price levels, industrial concentration and product...
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Sweden
Roseveare, Deborah - 2004
Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the...
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