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Determinants of U.S. Antitrust Fines of Corporate Participants of Global Cartels

Connor, John M. - 2013

Antitrust Division of the DOJ on 118 corporate participants of hard-core global cartels. Our behavioral model provides the first … participated in international cartels and that were fined between 1996 and March 2010. The predictive power of the optimal … clandestine cartels. We also find that fines complement other antitrust penalties: the number of months that a corporate defendant …

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An Essay, Taking Antitrust to Patent School : The Instance of Pay-for-Delay Settlements

Peritz, Rudolph J.R. - 2013

The essay develops a new approach for antitrust analysis of pay-for-delay settlements in pharmaceutical patent infringement cases, an approach that shows them to be presumptively prohibited agreements in restraint of competition. The issue is timely in light of the Watson v FTC case now pending...

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Occupy Wall Street and Antitrust

Stucke, Maurice E. - 2013

Capitalism, some declare, is in crisis. One concern, which the Occupy Wall Street protesters and many Americans share, is how a relatively small group of corporate and wealthy individuals now wields too much economic influence and control in the United States and the world. The prevailing belief...

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Equity, Antitrust, and the Reemergence of the Patent Unenforceability Remedy

Contreras, Jorge L. - 2013

The conventional legal analysis of technical standard setting derives primarily from antitrust law. But antitrust remedies, taken alone, may not be broad enough to address recent abuses of the standardization process. The principal example of this shortcoming is the well-known case of Rambus,...

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Energy Liberalization in Antitrust Straitjacket : A Plant Too Far?

Sadowska, Malgorzata M. - 2014

The European Commission has launched a number of antitrust investigations against the major energy incumbents in the aftermath of the energy sector inquiry. Most of them have already been settled under Article 9 of the EC Regulation 1/2003 and the undertakings offered far-reaching, sometimes...

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Competition Law and Sector Specific Rules in European Energy Sector : A Comparison to Trinko, Recent Commission’s Antitrust Decisions and a Look to the Future

Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2014

This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and general competition law, especially concerning energy markets and the road to Internal Market objective.We firstly present Trinko case, in order to focus on two crucial and...

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From Energy Sector Inquiry to Recent Antitrust Decisions in European Energy Markets : Competition Law as a Means to Implement Sector Regulation

Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2014

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Dynamic Competition in Antitrust Law

Sidak, J. Gregory - 2014

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The Duration of the EC Merger Control Process : Determinants and the Impact of the 2004 Merger Regulation Reform

Heim, Sven - 2015

The duration of merger proceedings held by competition authorities is an important determinant of the efficiency of the entire merger control process. We use a dataset of 2953 Phase I and 92 Phase II investigations completed by the European Commission (EC) between 1999 and 2008 to examine the...

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Competition Policy in a World of Big Data

Vezzoso, Simonetta - 2016

Big data is an important phenomenon injecting transformative effects into social and economic relationships. Consumers, firms and machines produce unprecedented amounts of data collected, stored and analysed by leveraging the synergic capabilities of mathematics, computer science and the...

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