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How Effective is European Merger Control?

Duso, Thomas; Gugler, Klaus; Yurtoglu, Burcin B. - 2011

rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …

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Deterrence in Competition Law

Buccirossi, Paolo; Ciari, Lorenzo; Duso, Tomaso; … - 2009

of antitrust rules, and the literature based on the analysis of hard data. We finally argue that the most challenging …

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EU Merger Remedies: A Preliminary Empirical Assessment

Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; Yurtoglu, Burcin B. - 2006

Mergers that substantially lessen competition are challenged by antitrust authorities. Instead of blocking … mergers that were under the European Commission's scrutiny from 1990 to 2002. We use an event study methodology to identify … the potential anticompetitive effects of mergers as well as the remedial provisions on these transactions. Stock market …

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An Empirical Assessment of the 2004 EU Merger Policy Reform

Duso, Tomaso; Guglery, Klaus; Szücs, Florian - 2010

tools; and 4) deterrence of anti-competitive mergers. To infer the economic impact of the merger policy reform, we compare …

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Shedding some light on the dark matter of competition: Insights from the strategic management and organizational science literature for the consideration of diversity aspects in me...

Kern, Benjamin R.; Ackermann, Malte - 2014

A merger between two innovation competitors is often suspected to reduce the variety of heterogeneous entities which are currently undertaking R&D or which are well situated to undertake R&D in a certain field. The consequential reduction of diversity can be detrimental to innovation because it...

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Competition and stability: what's special about banking?

Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp - 2002

sector. Market structures and the relative importance of the three classical antitrust areas for banking are discussed … authorities in the review of bank mergers for the G-7 industrialised countries. A wide variety of approaches emerges, with some …

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Islamic finance in Europe

di Mauro, Filippo; Caristi, Pierluigi; Couderc, Stéphane; … - 2013

Islamic finance is based on ethical principles in line with Islamic religious law. Despite its low share of the global financial market, Islamic finance has been one of this sector’s fastest growing components over the last decades and has gained further momentum in the wake of the financial...

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Empirical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Competition Policy

Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - 2013

This study evaluates the usefulness of different modifications of empirical models estimating the so-called Boone indicator for capturing changes in the intensity of competition. We use as “natural experiments” in this evaluation data from three cartel cases: i) international elevators and...

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Signaling, Learning and Screening Prior to Trial: Informational Implications of Preliminary Injunctions

Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Kim, Byung-Cheol - 2011

including antitrust, copyright, patents, trademarks, employment and labor relations as well as contracts. The process of filing …

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Penalising on the basis of the severity of the offence: A sophisticated revenue-based cartel penalty

Katsoulacos, Yannis; Motchenkova, Evgenia; Ulph, David - 2017

In Katsoulacos et al. (2015) we examined the welfare properties of a number of monetary penalty regimes for tackling cartels, including revenue-based penalties, the most widely used regime. We showed that for a typical industry overcharge–based penalties welfare-dominate the others. However...

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