An antitrust authority deters collusion using fines and a leniency program. Unlike in most of the earlier literature … distributed asymmetrically among firms. Asymmetry of the evidence can increase the cost of deterrence if the high-evidence firm …; this may increase the cost of deterrence. …

An antitrust authority deters collusion using fines and a leniency program. It chooses the probability of an … deterrence. Increasing the probability of an investigation at high levels reduces collusion, yet never completely. …

To encourage private actions for damages in antitrust cases some jurisdictions subtract a fraction of the redress from … settlement amount, yet at the price of reduced deterrence for those wrongdoers who are actually fined. Under a leniency program … fine reduction on deterrence is, therefore, negative. …

This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis …

An antitrust authority deters collusion using fines and a leniency program. Unlike in most of the earlier literature … distributed asymmetrically among firms. Asymmetry of the evidence can increase the cost of deterrence if the high-evidence firm …; this may increase the cost of deterrence. …

effectiveness of antitrust policies in the business community using panel data for as much as 59 countries and 14-year span. We use … dissuasion in the hands of antitrust enforcers against the more damaging forms of explicit collusion among rival firms in the …

Recently, Chr. Mantzavinos proposed a new concept for antitrust analysis drawing on theoretical developments in New … welfare economics, Mantzavinos pleas for a rule-governed antitrust policy which mainly operates with per se rules. This paper … argues that the criticism of the traditional foundations of antitrust is inadequate and that per se rules rarely work …

We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral …

private damage suits in the aftermath of antitrust litigation increase. The approaches implementation is embedded into current …

&S restricting their analysis to a static view of markets and antitrust …