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Cartel Sales Dynamics when Monitoring for Compliance is More Frequent than Punishment for Non-Compliance

Joseph E. Harrington Jr.; Montero, Juan-Pablo - In: The Analysis of Competition Policy and Sectoral Regulation

This study investigates when a cartel that uses a sales quota allocation scheme monitors more frequently than it enforces; for example, monitoring of sales is done on a weekly basis but firms are only required to comply with sales quotas on a quarterly basis. In a simple three-period quantity...

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Exploitation and Induced Tacit Collusion: A Classroom Experiment of Corporate Leniency Programs

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - In: The Analysis of Competition Policy and Sectoral Regulation

Recent laboratory experiments support the popular view that the introduction of corporate leniency programs has significantly decreased cartel activity. We develop a classroom experiment that captures key features of leniency programs. Our treatments include an exploitable and a non-exploitable...

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State aid for research, development and innovation in the European Union competition policy

Rutkiewicz, Krzysztof - In: Ekonomia i Prawo 14 (2015) 1, pp. 19-32

The aim of this paper is to present legal and economic aspects of granting state aid for research, development and innovation activities of enterprises in the European Union. The principles on acceptability of state aid in the light of the EU competition policy were discussed. The analysis...

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Problems of competition theory and policy in the ordoliberal thought

Moszynski, Michal - In: Ekonomia i Prawo 12 (2013) 2, pp. 221-232

The study is devoted to the ordoliberal concepts of economic order based on competition. Firstly the historical background of ordoliberal economic thought is sketched and the views of the most important authors on mechanism of competition and its institutional foundations are introduced. Next...

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Impact of the ordoliberal theory on the development of competition policy in Germany and the European Union

Kaminska, Katarzyna - In: Ekonomia i Prawo 12 (2013) 2, pp. 233-244

Ordoliberal doctrine and its recommendations on competition policy is an original German contribution to the development of economics and law. This theory has had an enormous impact on the development of German anti-trust legislation, and also contributed to the Treaties of Rome, including EU...

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Eine bessere Wettbewerbspolitik steigert das Produktivitätswachstum merklich

Duso, Tomaso - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 29, pp. 687-697

) of 4.5 percent. Dass zwischen der Qualität der Wettbewerbspolitik und dem Produktivitätswachstum eines Landes ein … entwickelt, das sie Güte der Wettbewerbspolitik messbar macht und es ermöglicht, die Auswirkungen der Wettbewerbspolitik auf das … Produktivitätswachstum zu beobachten. Die Studie zeigt: Verbessert sich die Wettbewerbspolitik gemessen an den hier genutzten Indikatoren um …

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The long and the short of it: California's electricity crisis

Friedman, Lee S. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 4 (2009) 1/2, pp. 4-31

Unexpected problems sometimes arise when governments attempt to introduce competition. The problem considered herein is market power and its exercise during the California electricity crisis of 2000â€“2001. In introducing competition, both transitional and long-run opportunities for firms...

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Intellectual Property, Competition, and Information Technology

Farrell, Joseph; Shapiro, Carl - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2004

This paper was prepared as a companion to the Mattioli Lectures delivered by Hal R. Varian, â€œEconomics of Information Technology,â€ available at: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/mattioli/mattioli.pdf. Professor Varianâ€™s overview analyzes a variety of competitive...

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Industry Restructuring: A Case for Affirmative Action

Villeneuve, Bertrand; Zhang, Vanessa Yanhua - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

We analyze the trade-oﬀ faced by authorities envisaging a one-shot structural re-form in a capitalistic industry. A structure is modeled as (1) a sharing of productive capital at some time and (2) a sharing of scarce sites or any other non-reproducible assets. These two distinct dimensions of...

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Determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program

Hoang, Cung Truong; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich - In: International Review of Law and Economics 40 (2014) C, pp. 15-23

We empirically investigate determinants of self-reporting under the European corporate leniency program. Applying a data set consisting of 442 firm groups that participated in 76 cartels decided by the European Commission between 2000 and 2011, we find that the probability of a firm becoming the...

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