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Alliance in the Sky – Cartels, Competition, or both?
Thomas, Rebecca - 2022
The paper aims to discuss the competition issues in the aviation sector within the Indian jurisdiction. The paper seeks to address various entry barriers (price of fuel, Landing slots, Boarding gates etc) to the airline industry. Further, it discusses the predominant issue of cartel behavior and...
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Four cases in sports competition policy: baseball, judo, football, and motor racing
Budzinski, Oliver - 2017
Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial activities are involved. From an economic perspective, this implies that both directly commercial activities like the sale of broadcasting/media rights and indirectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750292
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Cartel duration and endogenous private monitoring and communication : an instrumental variables approach
Zhou, Jun - 2012
Colluding firms often exchange private information and make transfers within the cartels based on the information. Estimating the impact of such collusive practices" - known as the 'lysine strategy profile (LSP)" - on cartel duration is difficult because of endogeneity and omitted variable bias....
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Settlements and appeals in the European Commission's cartel cases : an empirical assessment
Hellwig, Michael; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2016
The introduction of the European Union (EU) Settlement Procedure in 2008 aimed at promoting the procedural efficiency …
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The settlement procedure in EC cartel cases : an empirical assesment
Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2015
procedural efficiency of cartel enforcement in the European Union (EU). We use a data set consisting of 84 cartels decided by the … EC from 2000 to 2014 to empirically investigate the impact of the EU settlement procedure on the duration of cartel … discussion of further evaluation approaches we conclude that the EU Settlement Procedure has increased procedural efficiency of …
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Do cartel breakdowns induce mergers? : evidence from EC cartel cases
Hüschelrath, Kai; Smuda, Florian - 2013
We investigate the impact of cartel breakdowns on merger activity. Merging information on cartel cases decided by the European Commission (EC) between 2000 and 2011 with a detailed data set of worldwide merger activity, we find that, first, the average number of all merger transactions increase...
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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
discussions in the EU and the US. At the same time, our approach is a first step towards a quantitative comparative law and …
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Determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program
Hoang, Cung Truong; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2014
We empirically investigate the determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program. Applying a data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and 2011, we find that the probability of a firm becoming...
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The dynamics of leniency application and the knock-on effect of cartel enforcement
Zhou, Jun - 2016
We study the timing of leniency applications using a novel application of multi-spell discrete-time survival analysis for a sample of cartels prosecuted by the European Commission between 1996 and 2014. The start of a Commission investigation does not affect the rate by which conspirators apply...
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Cartel cases and the cartel enforcement process in the European Union 2001-2015 : a quantitative assessment
Hellwig, Michael; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2016
European Union (EU) from 2001 to 2015. In a first step, we present a detailed characterization of all cartel cases decided by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541082