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In this paper we set out the welfare economics based case for imposing cartel penalties on the cartel overcharge rather than on the more conventional bases of revenue or profits (illegal gains). To do this we undertake a systematic comparison of a penalty based on the cartel overcharge with...
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requiring a higher CSR level by regulation while preserving competition always gives higher within-market welfare. …
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are privately owned and experience little or no ex-ante regulation of airport charges. On the other hand, airports … activities into the regulation of airport infrastructure charges? This question is addressed in this paper. We discuss basic …
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regulation by taking all transaction costs into account which stem from the principal/agent relationship between regulatory … regulated entities – part of these costs can be regarded as the administrative burden of regulation for the private sector – but … society due to e.g. miscommunication on the aims of regulation, and are, of course, hard to quantify. A cost calculation using …
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challenge for optimal antitrust enforcement. We integrate the mentioned legal principles into an infinitely-repeated oligopoly …
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This paper develops a model of the birth and death of cartels in the presence of enforcement activities by a Competition Authority (CA). We distinguish three sets of interventions: (a) detecting, prosecuting and penalizing cartels; (b) actions that aim to stop cartel activity in the short-term,...
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Even under antitrust enforcement, firms may still form a cartel in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model when the … discount factor is sufficiently close to one. We present a linear oligopoly model where the profit-maximizing cartel price …
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We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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Water markets with market power are analysed as multi-market Cournot competition in which the river structure constrains access to local markets and limited resources impose capacity constraints. Conditions for uniqueness are identified. Lerner indices are larger under binding resource...
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