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Cartel Overcharges and Optimal Cartel Fines

Lande, Robert H. - 2007

appropriate levels to deter illegal price fixing cartels optimally. The authors analyze two data sets to determine how high on … average cartels raise prices. The first consists of every published scholarly economic study of the effects of cartels on … overcharges of 25% and 22%. They also report separate results for domestic cartels, international cartels, more recent cartels …

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A Class Action Model for Antitrust Damages Litigation in the European Union

Polverino, Fabio - 2006

This paper reviews the legal and economic structure of the class action litigation model in the United States, as set forth by rule 23 of US civil procedure, exploring the requirements for obtaining class certification and maintaining a class action. I analyze a number of critical issues and...

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Global Price Fixing : Book Review

Connor, John M. - 2007

GLOBAL PRICE FIXING (2nd Edition) was released by Springer at the end of 2006. This note reproduces a 2002 review of the first edition of the book by Prof. Douglas Greer. It is reproduced with the permission of the publisher of the Review of Industrial Organization

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Price Dispersion and Class Certification in Antitrust Cases : An Economic Analysis

Nieberding, James F. - 2007

Differences in prices paid by putative class members (quot;price dispersionquot;) often become a focal point for class certification in antitrust matters. This paper discusses how an economic analysis of the existence, extent, and nature of price dispersion faced by plaintiffs seeking class...

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Competition Policy and Iprs : An Open Debate Over an Ever-Green Issue

Arezzo, Emanuela - 2006

It is common knowledge that the old debate between competition policy and intellectual property rights has not yet found a definitive solution able to relax the present tension and, at the same time, provide courts with useful guidelines to set cases dealing with IPRs - with regard to this...

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Cartel Ringmaster or Competition Creator? The Ebooks Case Against Apple (2013)

Baker, Jonathan B. - 2017

In 2013, a federal district court found that Apple had orchestrated a cartel agreement involving it and five major book publishers three years earlier, when Apple opened the iBookstore in conjunction with the introduction of its iPad tablet computer. According to the court, Apple organized...

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Collusion, Managerial Incentives and Antitrust Fines

Thépot, Florence - 2017

Based on a price setting duopoly model, this paper argues that collusion on managerial incentive compensation may have the equivalent effect to collusion on prices. This paper also provides an analysis of the effect of different antitrust fines regimes in the context of a game between two...

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Active and Passive Institutional Investors and New Antitrust Challenges : Is EU Competition Law Ready?

Corradi, Marco Claudio - 2017

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 funds. New economic research suggests that common...

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Sharing, Samples, and Generics : An Antitrust Framework

Carrier, Michael A. - 2017

Rising drug prices are in the news. By increasing price, drug companies have placed vital, even life-saving, medicines out of the reach of consumers. In a recent development, brand firms have prevented generics even from entering the market. The ruse for this strategy involves risk-management...

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Complex Antitrust Harm in Platform Markets

Newman, John M. - 2017

toward favored third-party suppliers. A search engine, for example, might (under certain conditions identified by this …

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