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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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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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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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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 …

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Internet Retailing as a Marketing Strategy

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Noll, Rob van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

We analyze the incentives for incumbent bricks-and-mortar firms and newentrants to start an online retail channel in a differentiated goods market. Tothis end we set up a two-stage model where firms first decide whether or notto build the infrastructure necessary to start an online retail...

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Electronic Commerce and Retail Channel Substitution

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Noll, Rob van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We analyze a market where firms compete in a conventional and an electronicretail channel. Consumers easily compare prices online, but some incur purchaseuncertainties on the online channel. We investigate the market shares of the two retailchannels and the prices that are charged. We find that...

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