A screen is a statistical test designed to detect conspiracies aimed at illegally manipulating a market. Competition authorities, academics and consultants have designed a variety screens to detect competition problems, and the use of such screens is increasing. In this paper, we first describe...

This paper provides an introduction to the economic analysis of R&D cooperation among firms. Basing on some stylized facts, we survey the relevant theoretical literature in order to discuss the benefits and the costs that firms face when they cooperate in R&D. We then analyze the pros and the...

Under recurrent procurement, the awarding of a contract to a firm may put it in an advantageous position in future tenders, which may reduce competition over time. The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of competition for tendered contracts, focusing on factors that may generate...

This paper analyzes the impact of varying degrees of airline cooperation on nonstop and connecting international traffic, using a detailed dataset of international travel between the United States and other countries for the years 1998 to 2015. We demonstrate that cooperation by airlines —...

We study complementarities between brands in the context of collaborations across museums. Over the course of our sample, one major museum with a highly recognized brand closed temporarily and sequentially collaborated with two established local museums. With individual panel data on museum...

This paper categorises four different types of monopoly in which competition for-the-market might occur. It discusses the role of government granted concessions as a way to strengthen competition in markets where competition in-the-market is not always possible and suggests that concessions...

In this paper we abandon the usual assumption that patents bring known benefits to the industry or that their benefits are known to all parties. When royalty payments are increasing in one's patent portfolio, private information about the quality of patents leads to a variety of distortions, in...

Line of business restrictions (LOBRs) are antitrust remedies or regulatory restrictions that limit the activities that a firm can undertake. They include separation restrictions ranging from structural to behavioural separation (accounting, functional or legal). However, there are also...

This paper estimates the effects of code sharing, antitrust immunity and Open Skies treaties on prices, output and capacity using an eleven-year panel of U.S.-Europe data. Code sharing and immunized alliances are found to have significantly lower prices than traditional interline (multi-carrier)...

In the US spectrum auctions which allocate radio frequency rights to the private sector, firms are allowed to form multilateral bidding agreements. These agreements explicitly allow bidders to discuss their strategies and bids. Using public auction- and firm-level data from the Federal...