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Comments on the 2023 draft merger guidelines : a labor market perspective

Berger, David; Hasenzagl, Thomas; Herkenhoff, Kyle; … - 2023

states in Guideline 11 that the structural presumption threshold applies to labor market concentration, while also suggesting … that a stricter threshold may be warranted in labor markets. The post-merger Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) that defines … benefit if the agencies lowered the HHI threshold further - to 1500 or 1000. (4) Worker welfare is central to the 2023 draft …

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Consideration on the Legal Regime of the Mergers and Acquisition

BANULESCU, Viorel; POPESCU-CRUCERU, Anca; LEUCIUC, … - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 60 (2012) 2, pp. 209-215

In the present context of the European Single Market and the globalization among economies, mergers and acquisitions represent the means by which companies increase their competitional capacity. Real economical facts outline that traders performing activities in a competitional economical...

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Cautionary note about the Herfindahl-Hirschman index of market (industry) concentration

Kvålseth, Tarald O. - In: Contemporary Economics 16 (2022) 1, pp. 51-60

The Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) appears to be the most widely used index of market or industrial concentration. It … industry. The HHI is also used by government agencies when evaluating potential violation of antitrust laws and regulations. As … emphasized in this paper, and in spite of its several desirable properties, HHI has one serious limitation: it lacks the value …

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Cautionary note about the Herfindahl-Hirschman index of market (industry) concentration

Kvålseth, Tarald O. - In: Contemporary economics 16 (2022) 1, pp. 51-60

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Airline Deregulation, Competitive Environment and Safety

Papatheodorou, Andreas; Platis, Nikos - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 97 (2007) 1, pp. 221-242

Air traffic has substantially increased since the introduction of deregulation in both the USA and the European Union. Moreover, aircraft accidents involving fatalities have exhibited a downward trend over time. Still, a series of recently publicized accidents has raised again a serious issue,...

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Privatization of State Owned Enterprises and Economic Efficiency : Case Study of Sudan Airways (Volume 2)

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2013

The book investigate the process of privatization of state owned companies. Privatization of state owned companies and institutions is well known within the frame of the economic theory. Many explanations and reasons were given in numerous papers and books. In cost/benefit analyses it can be...

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Cautionary Note About the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of Market (Industry) Concentration

Kvålseth, Tarald O. - 2023

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The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platform Businesses

Schmalensee, Richard; Evans, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This Chapter provides a survey of the economics literature on multi-sided platforms with particular focus on competition policy issues, including market definition, mergers, monopolization, and coordinated behavior. It provides a survey of the general industrial organization theory of...

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Can Machine Learning Aide in Cartel Detection?

Abrantes-Metz, Rosa M. - 2018

Recent research has focused on complex antitrust issues of stemming from corporate uses of “Big Data” and “Machine Learning” pricing algorithms. For instance, Whether could the pricing algorithms of two different companies ever could be said to be colluding with each other is just one of...

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Separating Pro-Competitive from Anti-Competitive Loyalty Rebates : A Conceptual Framework

Geradin, Damien - 2009

In its submission to the recent OECD Roundtable on Bundled and Loyalty Discounts and Rebates (the "OECD Roundtable on rebates"), Korea observed that "loyalty discounts are getting growing attention both academically and practically" and that "this issue was now on top of the agendas of many...

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