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The law and economics of enhancing cartel enforcement: Using information from non-cartel investigations to prosecute cartels
Ghosal, Vivek - 2011
investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in several jurisdictions, information acquired in, for example, a M&A investigation … cartels are actually prosecuted via this channel, the proposal has the likelihood of creating a meaningful deterrence effect … fight against hardcore cartels that operate within jurisdictions as well as internationally. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277361
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Do Consumers Benefit from Concentration in the New Economy? A Review of Google's Mergers, Acquisitions, and Arrangements
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - 2008
Within the last three years, Google has acquired YouTube and DoubleClick and has attempted to control part of Yahoo!'s search advertising business. Two of the deals have not raised antitrust concerns by competition authorities. I review these deals with a focus on consumer welfare. Consumers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298703
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The Oracle/PeopleSoft case: unilateral effects, simulation models and econometrics in contemporary merger control
Budzinski, Oliver; Christiansen, Arndt - 2007
An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300228
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Airline alliances, antitrust immunity and market foreclosure
Bilotkach, Volodymyr; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2010
This paper examines the issue of market foreclosure by airline partnerships with antitrust immunity. Overlapping the data on frequency of service and passenger volumes on nonstop routes on the transatlantic airline market with the information on dynamics of airline partnerships, we find evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303009
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The Oracle/PeopleSoft case: unilateral effects, simulation models and econometrics in contemporary merger control
Budzinski, Oliver; Christiansen, Arndt - 2007
An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265740
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Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy
Ganslandt, Mattias - 2007
Intellectual property rights and competition policy are intimately related. In this paper I survey the economic literature analyzing the interaction between intellectual property law and competition law and how the boundary between these two policies is drawn in practice. Recognizing that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320154
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The Oracle/PeopleSoft case : unilateral effects, simulation models and econometrics in contemporary merger control
Budzinski, Oliver (contributor);  … - 2007
An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003417465
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Law and economics of Microsoft vs. U.S. Department of Justice : new paradigm for antitrust in network markets or inefficient lock-in of antitrust policy?
Radke, Marc-Peter - 2001
This paper contains an economic and legal analysis of the lawsuit Microsoft vs. U.S. Department of Justice beginning with the District Court's decision on June 7, 2000 up to the Proposed Final Judgement on November 6, 2001. I found that the courts' underlying economic paradigm regarding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958724
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Airline alliances, antitrust immunity and market foreclosure
Bilotkach, Volodymyr; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2010
This paper examines the issue of market foreclosure by airline partnerships with antitrust immunity. Overlapping the data on frequency of service and passenger volumes on nonstop routes on the transatlantic airline market with the information on dynamics of airline partnerships, we find evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701357
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Empirical analysis of the assessment of innovation effects in U.S. merger cases
Kern, Benjamin R.; Dewenter, Ralf; Kerber, Wolfgang - 2014
In this empirical study all mergers that have been challenged by the U.S. antitrust agencies FTC and DOJ between 1995 and 2008 were analyzed in regard to the question to what extent and how the agencies assessed the innovation effects of mergers. Theoretical background is the still open question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404134