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application of U.S. law to international cartels, monopolies, and mergers.Perhaps as a result of the changes in U.S. antitrust law … of U.S. antitrust law as the Chicago School's influence began to dominate the discourse, enforcement policy, and … audiences as the influence of the U.S. as the antitrust hegemon began to wane. EU competition law was a natural focus for her …
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We investigate the impact of consumer myopia on competition and firm behavior. In our model, firms repeatedly sell a primary good and a respective add-on. We study the impact of consumer myopia in the add-on market on pricing and on the ability of firms to engage in collusion. We show that in a...
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focus anew on the issue of buyer power. Antitrust authorities in the United States have been investigating slotting fees and … antitrust scrutiny or a separate analytical framework altogether. In this paper we outline both the relevant applicable law in … the US and Europe, as well as the economics of buyer power. We conclude that while antitrust authorities must always be …
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conditional probability of eliciting an antitrust challenge (i.e.,remedies and prohibitions) involves the strongest deterrence …
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Using a sample of 96 mergers notified to the EU Commission and logit regression techniques, we analyse the Commission …
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The literature identifies a significant drop in merger control enforcement activity on both sides of the Atlantic during the last decade. Furthermore, this drop in enforcement activity is convincingly connected to enforcement problems on the sides of the competition agencies. This paper goes...
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enforced in several important antitrust cases. We begin with a section that introduces the evolution of the law, followed by … of dominant position, and mergers. …
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We formulate a simple model of optimal defensive disclosure by a monopolist facinguncertain antitrust enforcement and …
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The collective sale of football broadcasting rights constitutes a cartel, which, in the European Union, is only allowed if it complies with a number of conditions and obligations, inter alia, partial unbundling and the no-single-buyer rule. These regulations were defined with traditional...
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.2 cut-off level employed by the EC. Additionally, we find that phase-1 remedies do not deter clearly pro-competitive mergers …, but do deter potentially anti-competitive mergers in high-concentration industries. …
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