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This paper focuses on the genesis, taxonomy and timeline of U.S. criminal antitrust investigations, and uses time …
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We compare the prevailing system of compulsory pre-merger notification with the Australian system of voluntary pre-merger notification. It is shown that, for a non-trivial set of parameter values, a perfect Bayesian equilibrium exists in mixed strategies in which the regulator investigates...
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From the beginning, the debate on the likely results of the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T focused more on the claims of the parties that “immense” merger efficiencies would overwhelm any apparent losses of competition than on the presence or absence of those losses, and the...
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The FTC and DOJ’s Proposed Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Regarding Accountable Care Organizations … Participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program explains how the antitrust agencies will screen accountable care organizations … antitrust screens the agencies have set forth in earlier Statements or Guidelines which are based on market shares in relevant …
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An important issue in many antitrust lawsuits involving professional sports leagues and their member teams is the …
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Internet search (or perhaps more accurately `web-search') has grown exponentially over the last decade at an even more rapid rate than the Internet itself. Starting from nothing in the 1990s, today search is a multi-billion dollar business. Search engine providers such as Google and Yahoo! have...
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This paper aims to build and empirically evaluate a discrete choice model of merger remedies as a basis for policy analysis. The database consists of 229 merger cases accepted in Phase I or Phase II of the European merger process between 1990 and 2005. We focus on the following question: Which...
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interpretations for the cointegration test and its vector error correction representation, in antitrust market definition. Then I …
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The paper deals with the mysterious persistence of the Chicago approach as the main analytical engine driving antitrust …-called Post-Chicago view, with its superior game-theoretic toolbox, Chicago arguments still permeate antitrust case law at all …
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hard evidence. Moreover, we examine firms' incentives to report or not to report the hard evidence to the antitrust …
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