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We show that a market involving a handful of large-scale firms and a myriad of small-scale firms may give rise to different types of market structure, ranging from monopoly or oligopoly to monopolistic competition through new types of market structure. In particular, we find conditions under...
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The sui generis database right was added to copyright protection of databases in the Russian legislation only in 2008 … database producers and database users …
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The Russian grocery retail industry has developed dynamically over the past two decades. The accompanying changes in competition and consumer behaviour make it an interesting subject for analysis, but full-fledged empirical studies in this area have not yet been conducted. This is largely due to...
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The empirical assessment of leniency program (LP) in Russia shows the effects of changes in the rules on the behavior …: their subject, duration and the number of participants. We show that LP in Russia makes enforcement of the behavior of …
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This paper analyses antitrust enforcement practice in Russia (2008–2012), in the area of competition …-restricting agreements (horizontal and vertical). The analysis is based on a court decision database of litigation with the Russian … competition authority (FAS). The database contains 400 cases, including 236 horizontal agreements (HA), 164 other agreements …
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This paper demonstrates that even established and verified facts of agreements among producers are not a sufficient condition for cartel identification and, as a consequence, prosecution of agreement participants. Such requires looking at institutional details and the wider context of these and...
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Many antitrust investigations in Russia continue to present a challenge for the assessment of competition policy and … enforcement. The article explains the possible effects of antitrust enforcement in Russia. Using a unique dataset of the appeals …
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Law enforcement by regulatory authorities on complaints may replicate not only advantages but also disadvantages of both public and private enforcement. In Russian antitrust enforcement there are strong incentives to open investigations on almost every complaint. The increasing number of...
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In this paper we study antitrust intervention in long-term relationships between public procurer and his preferred supplier in one of the Russian regions. We presume that antitrust control of auctions held by affiliated procurer increases the risks of implementing long-term relationships with...
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There is little evidence on the comparative effectiveness of different competition policy measures, especially in transition economies. This research represents the effort to expand the financial event study method for the assessment of different competition policy measures: merger control,...
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