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The duration of appellate court proceedings is an important determinant of the efficiency of a court system. We use data of 234 firm groups that participated in 63 cartels convicted by the European Commission between 2000 and 2012 to investigate the determinants of the duration of the subsequent...
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The appeals process – whereby the losing party of an administrative or judicial decision can seek reconsideration of their arguments before a higher institution – is an important mechanism to correct legal errors and to improve existing laws and regulations. We use data of 467 firm groups...
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The period spanning 1992 through 2000 was a time of significant federal and state antitrust activity. A major contribution to this activity was the proliferation of high-profile antitrust cases in which a single nexus of facts and conduct spawned multiple actions at both the state and federal...
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position (Article 82 EC) on the one hand and the efforts to enhance private enforcement of competition law through private … that public enforcers seek to repress unilateral business strategies causing harm to competition as protected by Article 82 … correlation between individual harm and harm to competition. As it turns out, there is a divergence in the incentives of public …
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looking at the context of private enforcement of competition law in Spain, it examines the process followed for the …
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Much of the competition policy discussion today centers around goals of antitrust. Until recently, the only antitrust …, and some scholars to question whether an economics-based goal focused on effects to consumer and competition (which for … shorthand I call the “consumer welfare” standard) is relevant and whether competition can be used to achieve particular results …
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Conn. L. Rev. (2020), the United States is an outlier in the world competition law community in its approach to the …, remedies, market study capabilities, and other necessary aspects of competition policy that are common in the European Union … and much of the rest of the world competition community. I summarize these differences in my written submission. The full …
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This paper reviews the legal and economic structure of the class action litigation model in the United States, as set forth by rule 23 of US civil procedure, exploring the requirements for obtaining class certification and maintaining a class action. I analyze a number of critical issues and...
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