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Policy innovations, political preferences, and cartel prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek; Sokol, D. Daniel - 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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The political economy of regulatory risk

Strausz, Roland - 2010

are needed to implement pre-electoral agreements. -- regulation ; regulatory risk ; political economy ; electoral …

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Wedges : distribution, distortions, and market integration

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2017 - First draft March 2017. This draft August 2017

This paper proposes a stylized model of policy determination and imperfect international integration. A country-specific policy wedge corrects labor market imperfections and/or redistributes welfare across differently wealthy agents. Capital market integration with the rest of the world, indexed...

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Migration-regime liberalization and social security : political-economy effect

Razin, Asaf; Sand, Edith - 2009

The pay-as-you-go social security system, which suffers from dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants with birth rates that exceed the native-born birth rates in the host country. Thus, a social security system provides effectively an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper...

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An allegory of the political influence of the top 1%

De Donder, Philippe; Roemer, John E. - 2013

We study how rich shareholders can use their economic power to deregulate firms that they own, thus skewing the income distribution towards themselves. Agents differ in productivity and choose how much labor to supply. High productivity agents also own shares in the productive sector and thus...

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Pareto-improving structural reforms

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2018

regulation for some goods. I provide sufficient conditions for deregulation, i.e. a general reduction in price floors, to be …

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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …

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Multi-market collusion with demand linkages and antitrust enforcement

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 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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Leniency programs in a multimarket setting : amnesty plus and penalty plus

Roux, Catherine (contributor); … - 2007

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Private enforcement, corruption, and antitrust design

Grajzl, Peter; Baniak, Andrzej - 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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