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National antitrust policies have potentially profound effects on global competitiveness of individual industries …, and price competition, as well as the regulation of intellectual property rights, are the major tools by which Government … executes antitrust policies. This study documents the frequency, extent, and impact of U.S. antitrust policies toward the pulp …
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regulation of incumbent local telephone carriers. The article suggests that the time is right to shift from a regime of a priori …
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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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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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Regulation 1/2003 and the PTC v UKE ruling that dealt with number portability charges. Relevant is also the antitrust prohibition …
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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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maximize profits, while the cooperative firms aim employment and output stability. The antitrust policy have replicated the …
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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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This paper investigates the market structure of the insurance business by analyzing the (interlock) linkages among companies created by their directors. We focus on the non-life business since this is a sector relatively closed with respect to the competition with other financial activities; an...
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This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to assess the ability of an incumbent seller to profitably foreclose a market with exclusive contracts. We use the strategic environment described by Rasmusen, Ramseyer, and Wiley (1991) and Segal and Whinston (2000) where entry is...
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