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Mason, Ruth - 2017

In this report, the first in a series of reports on EU state aid, Mason provides background on state aid law as it applies to income taxes, including the legal standard, recovery mechanism, and case selection by the Commission

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Competition Policy in Subsidies and State Aid

Biggar, Darryl - 2002

This document (of 193 pages) comprises the proceedings of an OECD roundtable on subsidies, state aid and competition …. Competition policy naturally extends, therefore, to policies designed to control subsidies. But what exactly is a subsidy … of public goods) can affect competition between firms. Which of these interventions should count as subsidies? Short of a …

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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 provocative statement as an introduction to an economic concept with critical implications for the antitrust enterprise: the multi-dimensional nature of competition. Competition...

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Regulating Innovation : Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty

Manne, Geoffrey A.; Wright, Joshua D. - 2013

This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent Law Under Uncertainty (Cambridge U. Press 2009 forthcoming). In addition to introducing all of the papers in the volume, this essay introduces the organizing themes of the...

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Do Research Joint Ventures Serve a Collusive Function?

Sovinsky, Michelle; Helland, Eric - 2009

Every year thousands of firms are engaged in research joint ventures (RJV), where all knowledge gained through R&D is shared among members. Most of the empirical literature assumes members are non-cooperative in the product market. But many RJV members are rivals leaving open the possibility...

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Colluding to Go Green : Global Antitrust Institute Comments on the Austrian Federal Competition Authority’s Draft Guidelines to Exempt 'Sustainability Agreements'

Raskovich, Alexander; Ginsburg, Douglas H.; Kobayashi, … - 2022

The Austrian Federal Competition Authority (AFCA) invited comment on its draft guidelines for exempting “sustainability agreements” from condemnation under Austrian competition law. That law recently changed, allowing a specific exemption for otherwise anticompetitive horizontal agreements...

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Blockchain Competition

Lianos, Ioannis - 2018

Taking a dynamic and reflexive perspective on the interaction between technology, law and economics, the study focuses on the role of competition in shaping the economic, but also regulatory, eco-system in which blockchain technology becomes embedded. There is the promise that the technology and...

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Overlapping Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy

Lopez, Angel Luis - 2017

This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with overlapping ownership. We show that overlapping ownership leads to internalization of rivals profits by firms and find that, for demand not too convex, increases in overlapping ownership increase...

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Cross-Ownership, R&D Spillovers, and Antitrust Policy

López, Angel L. - 2017

This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with overlapping ownership. We show that overlapping ownership leads to internalization of rivals' profits by firms and find that, for demand not too convex, increases in overlapping ownership increase...

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Designing Dynamic Research Contests

Benkert, Jean-Michel - 2019

This paper studies the optimal design of dynamic research contests. We introduce interim transfers, which are paid in every period while the contest is ongoing, to an otherwise standard setting. We show that a contest where: (i) the principal can stop the contest in any period, (ii) a constant...

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