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Beckner, C. Frederick; Salop, Steven C. - 1999

There is ongoing controversy over the proper antitrust decision process that regulatory commissions and the courts should use to evaluate various restraints. This controversy entails the question of whether to analyze conduct under a per se rule, the classical rule of reason, the quick look, the...

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Evaluating Antitrust Leniency Programs

Borrell, Joan-Ramon; Jimenez, Juan Luis; Garcia, Carmen - 2012

This paper identifies and then quantifies econometrically the impact of leniency programs on the perception of the effectiveness of antitrust policies in the business community using panel data for as much as 59 countries and 14-year span. We use the dynamics of the gradual diffusion of leniency...

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Endogenous Antitrust : Cross-Country Evidence on the Impact of Competition-Enhancing Policies on Productivity

Borrell, Joan-Ramon; Tolosa, Mara - 2015

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity. We find that treating antitrust across countries as an exogenous policy overestimates the impact of competition on productivity by as much as 18%

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Antitrust Agonistes

Shughart, William F. - 2022

Classical approaches to the law, even statutory law, teach that its purpose is to codify behavioral rules creating clear expectations about the consequences of human interactions. Stability and predictability are the rule of law’s hallmarks. The present essay explores those principles within...

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Cartelization : Is it worth it?

Garcia, Carmen - 2022

This study aims at evaluating the causal effect of belonging to a cartel on firms’ profits. Using a dataset of discovered cartel cases in Spain (1990 -2014) and a dataset of firms’ balance sheets, a treatment and a control group can be distinguished. After constructing a sample of comparable...

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Endogenous Antitrust : Cross-country Evidence on the Impact of Competition-Enhancing Policies on Productivity

Borrell, Joan-Ramon; Tolosa, Mara - 2006

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The behavioural economics of competitive balance: implications for league policy and championship management

Budzinski, Oliver; Pawlowski, Tim - 2014

The theory of competitive balance represents one of the core concepts of sports economics. Based upon an international research project analyzing the perception of competitive balance by consumers (Pawlowski 2013a, 2013b; Pawlowski & Budzinski 2013, 2014), we argue in this paper that behavioural...

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The "consumer choice" paradigm in German ordoliberalism and its impact upon EU competition law

Behrens, Peter - 2014

This paper explores the origin and development of the "consumer choice" paradigm as the core concept of German ordoliberal thought which has had a strong impact on EU competition policy and law. Outside Germany, ordoliberal thought is often identified exclusively with the learning of the...

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Regulation : theory and concepts

Bös, Dieter - 2001

mechanism and Shleifer's yardstick Regulation. Unfortunately, in practical applications of these simple mechanisms the regulated … regulator must be extremely well-informed if he wants to apply this sort of regulation: except for the actual realizations of a … regulated public utility. This is the main reason why in practice the simple $RPI - X$ regulation prevails. Finally, in this …

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The interplay between regulation and competitions : the case of universal service obligations

Hörnig, Steffen; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2002

Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...

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