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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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Gender and collusion
Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina; Rau, Holger A. - 2022
Many cartels are formed by individual managers of different firms, but not by firms as collectives. However, most of the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals' incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms,...
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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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Market concentration in Europe : evidence from antitrust markets
Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021
An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...
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The sociology of cartels
Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina - 2022
Traditional economic theory of collusion assumed that cartels are inherently unstable, and yet some manage to operate …
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Collusion sustainability with a capacity constrained firm
Madio, Leonardo; Pignataro, Aldo - 2022
We study an infinitely repeated oligopoly game in which firms compete on quantity and one of them is capacity constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in the size of the capacity constrained firm, which has little incentive to deviate from a cartel. We also present...
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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation : bell labs and the 1956 consent decree
Watzinger, Martin; Fackler, Thomas; Nagler, Markus; … - 2017
harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …
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Buying to sell : private equity buyouts and industrial restructuring
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2013
We show how temporary ownership by private equity firms affects industry structure, competition and welfare. Temporary ownership leads to strong investment incentives because equilibrium resale prices are determined by buyers incentives to block rivals from obtaining assets. These incentives...
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The competition between competition rules
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national co mpetition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since abolishing this law makes it possible for a single country...
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Evidence production in merger control : the role of remedies
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021
We analyze evidence production in merger control as a delegation problem in an inquisitorial competition policy system. The antitrust agency’s incentives to produce evidence on the efficiency of a merger proposal depend critically on its action set. Allowing for a compromising remedy solution...
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