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Schinkel, Maarten Pieter; Tuinstra, Jan; Rüggeberg, Jakob - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

recovery of antitrust damages to direct purchasers. However, antitrust damages are typically (in part) passed on to … private damages. The cartel can achieve this by rationing inputs at low prices. Several U.S. antitrust cases show symptoms of …

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Antitrust in Open Economies

Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral …

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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth

Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

becomenegative and the firm stops producing the variety. This diminishes the life span of innovations,thus reducing the return on …

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Signals in Science - On the Importance of Signaling in Gaining Attention in Science

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Which signals are important in gaining attention in science? For a group of 1,371 scientific articles published in 17 demography journals in the years 1990-1992 we track their influence and discern which signals are important in receiving citations. Three types of signals are examined: the...

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Inciting Protocols - How International Environmental Agreements Trigger Knowledge Transfers

Dekker, Thijs; Vollebergh, Herman R.J.; Vries, Frans P. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

non-signatory countries in the period 1970-1997. The data distinguish between so-called 'mother' patents, or original … inventions, and 'family' patents, which represent the same invention but are patentsfiled in foreign countries. Our analysis …

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Tracing the Base: A Topographic Test for Collusive Basing-Point Pricing

Bos, Iwan; Schinkel, Maarten Pieter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

was found to have abused the basing-point system, our method can be used to estimate antitrust damages. …

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The Effects of Leniency on Maximal Cartel Pricing

Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Wen, Quan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

illegal gains, as often outlined in existing antitrust regulation, and detection probabilities depend on the degree of … disentangles the effects of traditional antitrust regulation, leniency, and cartel strategies. Without rewards to the strictly …

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The Effects of Leniency on Cartel Pricing

Houba, Harold; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Wen, Quan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

response to the introduction of (ex-ante and ex-post) leniency programs. We disentangle the effects of traditional antitrust … below the price under antitrust without leniency. On the other hand, for ex-post leniency, improvement is possible and …

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The Deterrence Effects of U.S. Merger Policy Instruments

Clougherty, Joseph A.; Seldeslachts, Jo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

conditional probability of eliciting an antitrust challenge (i.e.,remedies and prohibitions) involves the strongest deterrence …

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Defensive Disclosure under Antitrust Enforcement

Bhaskarabhatla, Ajay; Pennings, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

We formulate a simple model of optimal defensive disclosure by a monopolist facinguncertain antitrust enforcement and … test its implications using unique data on defensivedisclosures and patents by IBM during 1955-1989. Our results indicate …

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