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The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement : Using Information from Non-Cartel Investigations to Prosecute Cartels

Ghosal, Vivek - 2021

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...

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Upward Pricing Pressure of Mergers Weakening Vertical Relationships

Langus, Gregor - 2016

We modify the UPP test of Farrell and Shapiro (2010) to take into account the possibility that a merger weakens (or … eliminates) a vertical supply relationship. After deriving a general effect of the merger, we provide an example of simple …

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Heterogeneous Merger Impacts on Competitive Outcomes

Siebert, Ralph - 2017

differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger …. We allow the merger responses to vary across firms, even after controlling for regressors, and apply a random …

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Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and Cartel Prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek - 2015

While price-fixing cartel prosecutions have received significant attention, the policy determinants and the political preferences that guide such antitrust prosecutions remain understudied. We empirically examine the intertemporal shifts in U.S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period...

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How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation : Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree

Watzinger, Martin - 2017

We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having...

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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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Private Enforcement, Corruption, and Antitrust Design

Grajzl, Peter - 2015

Recent adoption of competition laws across the globe has highlighted the importance of institutional considerations for antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of substantive law. Contributing to the resulting nascent...

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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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Price or Variety? An Evaluation of Mergers Effects in Grocery Retailing

Argentesi, Elena - 2018

claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as … merger's effects, controlling for selection on observables when defining our control group through a matching procedure. We … show that the local change in competitive conditions due to the merger did not affect individual products' prices but it …

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Source Versus Residence Based Taxation with International Mergers and Acquisitions

Becker, Johannes - 2009

This paper analyses tax competition and tax coordination in a model where capital flows occur in the form of mergers and acquisitions, rather than greenfield investment. In this framework, we show that differences in residence based taxes do not necessarily distort international ownership...

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