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Raising Rivals' Costs Through Cartel Detection - Why Downstream Buyers Rather Face an Upstream Cartel than Downstream Competition
Clemens, Georg - 2018
This paper analyses how the endogenous detection of an upstream cartel by a down-stream buyer allows the detecting firm … to raise rivals' cost. We model a market with a vertical structure, where a stable all-inclusive cartel is operating in … cartel, while the existence of the cartel remains unknown to its competitor. The model shows that the detecting firm can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934303
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Cartel Destabilization and Leniency Programs – Empirical Evidence
Klein, Gordon - 2011
Leniency programs as a tool for cartel detection and cartel destabilization, have been implemented since the early … nineties. Theoretical work has shown that leniency programs can be eff ective in enhancing cartel detection and deterrence, but …. Empirical evidence shows that the positive e ffect on cartel deterrence seems to dominate, but cannot provide definite evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124525
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Cartel destabilization and leniency programs : empirical evidence
Klein, Gordon J. - 2010
Leniency programs as a tool for cartel detection and cartel destabilization, have been implemented since the early … nineties. Theoretical work has shown that leniency programs can be effective in enhancing cartel detection and deterrence, but …. Empirical evidence shows that the positive effect on cartel deterrence seems to dominate, but cannot provide definite evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822030
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Cartel Ringmaster or Competition Creator? The Ebooks Case Against Apple (2013)
Baker, Jonathan B. - 2017
In 2013, a federal district court found that Apple had orchestrated a cartel agreement involving it and five major book …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951059
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The Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Revises its Cartel Immunity Program
Talbot, Conor C. - 2015
Given the immense social, economic and personal damage caused by the covering-up of crimes by Irish institutions, there is a remarkable reluctance in Irish society to provide systematic protection to whistle-blowers and persons willing to come forward to ensure offences are investigated by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017826
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Can the leniency program deter collusion in young competition jurisdiction of transition economy?
Jusupova, Gjuzelʹ - In: International journal of economic policy in emerging … 10 (2017) 4, pp. 383-406
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Four cases in sports competition policy: baseball, judo, football, and motor racing
Budzinski, Oliver - 2017
Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial activities are involved. From an economic perspective, this implies that both directly commercial activities like the sale of broadcasting/media rights and indirectly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750292
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U.S. Convergence with International Competition Norms : Antitrust Law and Public Restraints on Competition
Cooper, James C.; Kovacic, William E. - 2014
In this Article we focus upon an area in which greater convergence of U.S. policy with the practice of many foreign countries is long overdue: the treatment of public policies that suppress competition. Whereas the European Union (“EU”) and numerous other jurisdictions have taken strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039873
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Antitrust, Multi-Dimensional Competition, and Innovation : Do We Have an Antitrust-Relevant Theory of Competition Now?
Wright, Joshua D. - 2013
Harold Demsetz once claimed that 'economics has no antitrust relevant theory of competition.' Demsetz offered this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046270
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Emerging Theories of Competitive Harm in Merger Enforcement
Tucker, Darren S. - 2012
At least since the early 1980s, the core principles of merger enforcement policy have been stable. Horizontal mergers that create, enhance, or facilitate the exercise of market power and vertical transactions that adversely affect horizontal competition are condemned, and consumer welfare is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110965