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Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
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This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis …
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Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression and the guidance of firms across the full spectrum of anti-competitive practices and market conduct. The role of guidelines and policy statements has, arguably, been particularly...
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Mit der Umsetzung der 7. Novelle des Gesetzes gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen (GWB) wurde im Jahr 2005 die Ausnahmeregelung des sog. Ministerkartells nach § 8 GWB ersatzlos gestrichen. Ähnlich dem noch bestehenden Instrument der Ministererlaubnis für Fusionen nach § 42 GWB konnte bis dahin...
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This paper presents the new OECD competition law and policies (CLP) indicators which measure the strength and scope of competition regimes in 49 jurisdictions (OECD and non-OECD). The indicators cover areas for which there is a broad consensus among member countries on what constitutes...
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higher in industries where temporary antitrust immunity was granted for subset of firms that engaged in concerted practices … temporary antitrust immunity was granted for some class of coordinated actions …
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similar. However the impact of competition policy has broadened. It has moved from antitrust and mergers to include more … general antitrust had been envisaged. This example suggests that to balance industrial policy and competition policy as a …
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The antitrust laws are increasingly used to prosecute alleged acts of market manipulation, particularly against firms …, but antitrust remains a vehicle on which private claims are based. If anti-manipulation enforcement wanes (or its legal … foundation is eroded) with political change, private antitrust actions might fill the void — if such claims are substitutable. As …
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We examine the impact of competition laws on innovation. We create a unique firm-level dataset on patenting activities that includes over 1.2 million firm-year observations, across 66 countries, from 1991 through 2015. Using a new, comprehensive dataset on competition laws, we find that more...
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This comment is submitted by the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) at Scalia Law School, George Mason University in … analyze antitrust matters involving intellectual property rights …
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