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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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Chapter 36 Antitrust Policy toward Horizontal Mergers
Whinston, Michael D. - In: Handbook of industrial organization : volume 3, (pp. 2369-2440). 2007
Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen some of the most dramatic improvements in both economic tools and the application of economics in...
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Actions Speak Louder than Words : econometric evidence to target tacit collusion in oligopolistic markets
Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013
Tacit collusion reduces welfare comparably to explicit collusion but remains mostly unaddressed by antitrust enforcement which greatly depends on evidence of explicit communication. We propose to target specific elements of firms' behavior that facilitate tacit collusion by providing...
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Policy innovations, political preferences, and cartel prosecutions
Ghosal, Vivek; Sokol, D. Daniel - 2015
-2003, and 2004-2013. Our empirical estimates show significant variation in the number of cartels prosecuted and the penalties … imposed across the policy regimes. The more recent regimes are characterized by far fewer cartels prosecuted, but with … cartels to larger and multinational firms. In terms of political effects, our results reveal no clear inter-political party …
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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 …
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Estimating consumer damages in cartel cases
Laitenberger, Ulrich; Smuda, Florian - 2013
We use consumer panel data to calculate the damage suffered by German consumers due to a detergent cartel that was active between 2002 and 2005 in eight European countries. Applying before-and-after and difference-in-differences estimations we find average overcharges between 6.7 and 6.9 percent...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886259
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Multi-market collusion with demand linkages and antitrust enforcement
Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2009
This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We show that cartel prosecution can have a knock-on effect: desisting a cartel in one market reduces profits and cartel stability and leads to the break-up of the cartel in the...
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Passive partial ownership, sneaky takeover, and merger control
Jovanovic, Dragan; Wey, Christian - 2013
We analyze horizontal mergers when the acquirer holds a passive partial ownership stake (PPO) in the target firm prior to the merger. We show that a PPO reduces the minimal synergy level necessary to make a merger beneficial for consumers. It follows that an antitrust authority ignoring existing...
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The High Economic Costs of Cartels : Can Private Enforcement Help?
Connor, John M. - 2010
of North America in the size of fines imposed on cartels. While there are glimmers of change afoot, the EU's fight …
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