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Kaplow, Louis - In: International journal of industrial organization 61 (2018), pp. 749-776

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Kaplow, Louis - 2018

The prohibition against price fixing is competition law’s most important and least controversial provision. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings cannot be reconciled with principles of oligopoly theory. This article...

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Legal and illegal cartels in the European cement industry

Fink, Nikolaus; Frübing, Stefan - 2015

Due to being much better documented, legal cartels have recently attracted the interest of many researchers who aim to understand the functioning of illegal cartels in detail. This paper contributes to the question of what we can learn from legal cartels by taking a closer look at the cement...

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Policy innovations, political preferences, and cartel prosecutions

Ghosal, Vivek; Sokol, D. Daniel - 2015

, collusion. …

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Information exchange through non-binding advance price announcements : an antitrust analysis

Boshoff, Willem H.; Frübing, Stefan; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015

We study the welfare effects of non-binding advance price announcements. Applying a differentiated Bertrand model with horizontal products and asymmetric information, we find that such announcements can help firms to gain information on each other thereby allowing them to achieve higher profits....

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Regulating gasoline retail markets : the case of Germany

Wittmann, Nadine - 2014

agencies. After having examined the market, competition authorities concluded that tacit collusion existed but could not easily … type of variable tax scheme successfully manages to render collusion an unprofitable business. In addition, it is also easy … - and therefore non-prosecutable - collusion, could be turned into a regulatory virtue as it becomes a powerful means to …

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