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Use and abuse of antidumping by global cartels
Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Hoffstadt, Martin - 2020
Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy … that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … higher world import prices and lower quantities during cartel periods, and to induce the establishment of a cartel. The …
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Market concentration in Europe : evidence from antitrust markets
Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021
many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market …
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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 … in breaking up cartels. Based on these results we discuss implications for competition policy and further research. …
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Common ownership of competing firms : evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
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Concentration and competition : evidence from Europe and implications for policy
Koltay, Gábor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022
competition policy is likely to face more challenges as large companies are becoming more common in more and more industries. …
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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 …
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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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Common ownership, concentration and corporate conduct
Schmalz, Martin C. - 2018
The question of whether and how partial common-ownership links between strategically interacting firms affect firm behavior has been the subject of theoretical inquiry for decades. Since then, consolidation and increasing concentration in the asset-management industry has led to more pronounced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800078
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Oligopoly, macroeconomic performance, and competition policy
Azar, José; Vives, Xavier - 2018
We develop a macroeconomic framework in which firms are large and have market power with respect to both products and labor. Each firm maximizes a share-weighted average of shareholder utilities, which makes the equilibrium independent of price normalization. In a one-sector economy, if returns...
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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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