This study characterizes the corporate leniency policy that minimizes the frequency with which collusion occurs. Though … it can be optimal to provide only partial leniency, plausible sufficient conditions are provided whereby the antitrust … when amnesty is awarded, though it can be optimal to award amnesty even when the antitrust authority is very likely to win …

recovery of antitrust damages to direct purchasers. However, antitrust damages are typically (in part) passed on to … collusion. It allows an upstream cartel to shield itself from private damage claims by forwarding a share of cartel profits to … private damages. The cartel can achieve this by rationing inputs at low prices. Several U.S. antitrust cases show symptoms of …

Given various recent antitrust investigations on the retail sector, we deal with uncovering demand systems substitution …

advantage. We examine the effect of an antitrust policy that prohibits both platforms (symmetric regulation), or just the …

We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We …

with both the body of economic research on bidder collusion and with the antitrust jurisprudence on information exchange … antitrust law. Recent theoretical research conjectures that, in an SSO, patent owners can “hold up” patent users in the sense of … conjecture, actual SSOs have recently sought no-action letters from the Antitrust Division for a variety of amendments to SSO …