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Chapter 15 Antitrust
Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007
This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...
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Imperfect Enforcement of Predatory Pricing Law
Dijk, Theon van - 2009
essential for judgments in such cases, and we allow the court to make errors. The imperfect enforcement by courts, affects both …
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The Law and Economics of Predatory Pricing
Kobayashi, Bruce H. - 2008
emphasizing strategic theory has shown that predation can be rational, and empirical studies have presented evidence consistent … with successful predation. In this sense, the economics of predatory pricing has moved closer to other areas of … assumption that successful predation was rare, has remained relatively intact. While the recent economic literature may have …
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The draft for the 10th amendment of German competition law: towards a new concept of "Outstanding relevance across markets"?
Budzinski, Oliver; Gänßle, Sophia; Stöhr, Annika - 2020
The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next to extending the classic policy instruments of abuse...
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Gender and collusion
Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina; Rau, Holger A. - 2022
Many cartels are formed by individual managers of different firms, but not by firms as collectives. However, most of the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals' incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms,...
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Is Amazon the next Google?
Budzinski, Oliver; Köhler, Karoline H. - 2015
Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate is already on the horizon - the ubiquitous online...
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Time is money – how much money is time? : interest and inflation in competition law actions for damages
Bueren, Eckart; Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - 2014
Public and private action against cartels is an internationally recognized cornerstone of antitrust enforcement …. Effective private enforcement requires that cartel victims can receive (at least) full compensation for the harm suffered …
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A primer on damages of cartel suppliers : determinants, standing US vs. EU and econometric estimation
Bueren, Eckart; Smuda, Florian - 2013
While private actions for damages by customers against price-cartels receive much attention, the treatment of other groups affected by such conspiracies is largely unresolved. This article narrows the research gap with respect to suppliers to a downstream price cartel. First, we show that such...
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Public vs. Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in Unilateral Conduct Cases - The Interaction Between the Economic Review of the Prohibition of Abuses of Dominant Positions and Pri...
Mackenrodt, Mark-Oliver - 2011
position (Article 82 EC) on the one hand and the efforts to enhance private enforcement of competition law through private … damage claims on the other hand. The paper argues that effective enforcement requires that exactly those cases should be … individual harm there is concern for an under-deterrence through private enforcement. On the other hand, there are cases where …
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Aftermarket Theories in Competition Law and an Empirical Analysis of Regulation on Motor Vehicles
Ardiyok, Sahin - 2010
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