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Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity
Babina, Tania; Barkai, Simcha; Jeffers, Jessica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 1971 and 2018. Using restricted establishment-level microdata from the U.S. Census, we compare the economic outcomes of a non-tradable industry in states...
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The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the United States
Lancieri, Filippo Maria; Posner, Eric A.; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Antitrust enforcement in the United States has declined since the 1960s. Building on several new datasets, we argue that this decline did not reflect a popular demand for weaker enforcement or any other kind of democratic sanction. The decline was engineered by unelected regulators and judges...
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Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy : Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley
Baker, Richard B. - 2018
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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Courts and Relational Contracts
Johnson, Simon - 2001
Post-communist countries offer new evidence on the relative importance of courts and relationships in enforcing contracts. Belief in the effectiveness of courts has a significant positive effect on the level of trust shown in new relationships between firms and their customers. Well-functioning...
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Aggregate Consequences of Limited Contract Enforceability
Cooley, Thomas - 2003
We study a general equilibrium model in which entrepreneurs finance investment with optimal financial contracts. Because of enforceability problems, contracts are constrained efficient. We show that limited enforceability amplifies the impact of technological innovations on aggregate output....
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Imperfect Contract Enforcement
Anderson, James E. - 2002
We model imperfect contract enforcement when repudiators and their victims default to spot trading. The interaction … between the contract and spot markets under improved enforcement can exacerbate repudiation and reduce contract execution …, harming all traders. Improved contract execution benefits traders on the excess side of the spot market by attracting …
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Coercive Contract Enforcement : Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain
Naidu, Suresh - 2011
British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting … model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …
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Social Networks as Contract Enforcement : Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2014
Absence of well-functioning formal institutions leads to reliance on social networks to enforce informal contracts. Social ties may aid cooperation, but agents vary in network centrality, and this hierarchy may hinder cooperation. To assess the extent to which networks substitute for...
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The Competition Between Competition Rules
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
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 abolishing this law makes it possible for a single country...
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Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets
Gaynor, Martin - 1999
In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a brief review of antitrust legislation. We then discuss whether and how health care is different from other industries in ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The...
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