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Multi-Market Collusion with Demand Linkages and Antitrust Enforcement

Choi, Jay Pil - 2009

This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the...

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Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and Cartel Prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek - 2015

, collusion …

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Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation

Choi, Jay Pil - 2010

In this paper we analyze cartel formation and self-reporting incentives when firms operate in several geographical markets and face antitrust enforcement in different jurisdictions. We are concerned with the effectiveness of leniency programs and the benefits of international antitrust...

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Multimarket Linkages, Cartel Discipline and Trade Costs

Agnosteva, Delina - 2018

We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs …

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Abuse of Dominance and Antitrust Enforcement in the German Electricity Market

Duso, Tomaso - 2017

In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...

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International Antitrust Enforcement and Multi-Market Contact

Choi, Jay Pil - 2009

antitrust authorities in each market. We are concerned with how the sustainability of collusion in one local market is affected … by the existence of collusion in other markets when they are linked by demand relationships. The interdependence of … collusion sustainability across markets leads to potential externalities in antitrust enforcement across jurisdictions. As a …

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Turning the Page on Business Formats for Digital Platforms : Does Apple's Agency Model Soften Competition?

Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg - 2021

The agency model used by Apple and other platform providers such as Google allows upstream firms (content providers like book publishers and developers of apps) to choose the retail prices of their products (RPM) subject to a fixed revenue-sharing rule. We show that (i) this leads to higher...

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Leniency Programs in a Multimarket Setting : Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus

Roux, Catherine; von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas - 2021

We examine the effects of Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus, influencing firms' whistle blowing incentives in one market, on their self-reporting decision in another market. Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus are proactive US strategies which aim at triggering multiple confessions by increasing the...

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How Social Reputation Networks Interact with Competition in Anonymous Online Trading : An Experimental Study

Bolton, Gary E. - 2014

Many Internet markets rely on quot;feedback systemsquot;, essentially social networks of reputation, to facilitate trust and trustworthiness in anonymous transactions. Market competition creates incentives that arguably may enhance or curb the effectiveness of these systems. We investigate how...

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