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relative to A. Hence, absent strong antitrust or intellectual property protections, the A firm can leverage its monopoly into B …
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effects and stockpiles of data, and should be the focus of intense antitrust and regulatory scrutiny, are inconsistent with …
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A large fraction of US public stock is held by institutional investors that frequently hold shares in multiple firms in the same industry ("common ownership"). Concerns have been raised that common ownership might harm competition if it confers influence over important strategic decisions. Using...
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Price-concentration studies have a long history empirical industrial organization, including prominent recent examples. Although their robustness has been questioned for many years, a casual review of the literature leaves the impression that the main issue is the endogeneity of the...
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Has the antitrust arsenal run out of novel theories or weapons? Think again. Recent scholarship has come to challenge … conventional wisdom with the latest target of antitrust imagination being institutional investors, including diversified index … been rapid and widespread. Antitrust enforcers started looking closer at certain industries as well as investigating the …
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airline and banking industries. If generally true, this evidence could lead to a radical reset of antitrust enforcement policy … in the analysis. While the evidence is still too sparse to justify antitrust action on this front, there can be little … rivalry (and so prices). If so validated, then antitrust policy may well need to hit the "reset" button …
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for and actual changes in antitrust policy. This paper examines the research on this subject to date and finds that its …
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stockholdings in several competing companies, is anticompetitive and prohibited by the U.S. antitrust laws. Proponents of this view … antitrust enforcement against common ownership is misguided. First, proponents conflate management by investment managers and … anticompetitive conduct that, if proven, could be addressed using established antitrust doctrines applicable to hub …
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The literature shows that horizontal shareholding engenders significant anticompetitive effects and that no suitable instrument exists within European competition law which reliably and effectively can be applied to curtail such intrinsic effects. This Article analyses several proposals which...
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This paper compares and contrasts the processes used by the European, United Kingdom and Scottish parliaments in considering broadband policies, legislation, regulatory systems and outcomes, within a complex triple-tiered governance system. Broadband is of increasing importance due to the...
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