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The Use of Natural Experiments in Merger Analysis
Coate, Malcolm B. - 2013
Natural experiments may serve as a test of an economic theory that purports to evaluate the competitive effects of a … proposed transaction and therefore play an important role in merger analysis. Using aggregate reviews of Federal Trade … Commission merger studies, it is possible to identify a number of quantitative and qualitative experiments supportive of …
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Bound by Bias? Franchisees' Cognitive Biases
Emerson, Robert W. - 2019
Cognitive biases play a fundamental part in franchisor-franchisee deal making. Ordinarily, franchisors have more power and information than do franchisees. The disparity between these parties is often exacerbated by the franchisees' psychological dispositions. Are franchisees biased or...
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Beauty Fades : An Experimental Study of Federal Court Design Patent Aesthetics
Torrance, Andrew W. - 2020
Courts are rarely asked to judge beauty. Such a subjective practice would normally be anathema to the ideal of objective legal standards. However, one area of federal law has a long tradition of explicitly requiring courts to make aesthetic decisions: the law of design. New designs may be...
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Mergers, asymmetries and collusion : experimental evidence
Fonseca, Miguel A.; Normann, Hans-Theo - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 118 (2008), pp. 387-400
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Mergers, mavericks, and tacit collusion
Darai, Donja; Roux, Catherine; Schneider, Frédéric - 2019
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Trust, Leniency and Deterrence
Bigoni, Maria - 2014
This paper presents results from a laboratory experiment on the channels through which different law enforcement strategies deter cartel formation. With leniency policies offering immunity to the first reporting party a high fine is the main determinant of deterrence, having a strong effect even...
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An Experimental Approach to Merger Evaluation
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2013
The 2010 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Horizontal Merger Guidelines lay out a new standard for … cases in which the GUPPI would imply increased regulatory scrutiny of a proposed merger …
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An Experimental Approach to Merger Evaluation
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2013
The 2010 Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Horizontal Merger Guidelines lay out a new standard for … cases in which the GUPPI would imply increased regulatory scrutiny of a proposed merger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458959
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Tacit Collusion – The Neglected Experimental Evidence
Engel, Christoph - 2015
Both in the US and in Europe, antitrust authorities prohibit merger not only if the merged entity, in and of itself, is … no longer sufficiently controlled by competition. The authorities also intervene if, post merger, the market structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027879
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Tacit collusion : the neglected experimental evidence
Engel, Christoph - 2015
Both in the US and in Europe, antitrust authorities prohibit merger not only if the merged entity, in and of itself, is … no longer sufficiently controlled by competition. The authorities also intervene if, post merger, the market structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483415