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Market definition and market power are central features of competition law and practice but pose serious challenges. On …
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We study the importance of discretion in antitrust enforcement by analyzing the response of asset prices to the sudden accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. During McKinley's term in office the largest wave of merger activity in American history occurred, and his administration did...
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obstacles associated with corruption and weak institutions. We model these circumstances in a principal-agent framework with … economic corruption as an indicator of the strength of property right enforcement within a given country. We compare corruption … levels for a large cross section of countries in 1989 to subsequent FDI flows from 1990 to 1999. We find that corruption is …
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This article analyzes corruption of law enforcement agents: payment of bribes to agents so that they will not report … violations. Corruption dilutes deterrence because bribe payments are less than sanctions. The state may not be able to offset … detect and penalize corruption. At the optimum, however, corruption may not be deterred. Nonetheless, it may be desirable to …
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effectiveness, and how the quintessential features of blockchain reshape industrial organization and the landscape of competition … competition, yet the irreducible distribution of information during consensus generation may encourage greater collusion. In …
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In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been …
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Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national … competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since …
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This paper sets up a microeconomic theory of labor unions. It discusses their formation and goals, their hierarchical structure, and the nature of rent distribution. The theory provides predictions for the probability that an industry or occupation will be unionized, the proportion of that...
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Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic …, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than … through static price/output competition in the market. Sound antitrust economic analysis of such industries requires explicit …
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Governments rescue private companies partly to prevent other firms from gaining excessive market power. However, if failing firms exit, new entry may limit remaining firms' market power if there are potential entrants who can be as effective competitors as the firms leaving the market. We...
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