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Between Economic Freedom and Effective Competition Enforcement : The Impact of the Antitrust Remedies Provided by the Modernisation Regulation on Investigated Parties’ Freedom to C...

Andreangeli, Arianna - 2012

This paper seeks to analyse the issues emerging from the imposition of certain antitrust remedies, such as the obligation to grant intellectual property licenses regarding key inventions covered by patent or copyright and to stipulate contracts with other firms, including competitors, as a means...

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Soft Law and the Private Enforcement of the EU Competition Rules

Sanchez-Graells, Albert - 2010

asymmetrical legal effects when they are enforced by the Commission and by national courts. Hence, they create a significant risk …

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Three economist's tools for antitrust analysis : a non-technical introduction

Pittman, Russell W. - 2017

The importance of economics to the analysis and enforcement of competition policy and law has increased tremendously in the developed market economies in the past forty years. In younger and developing market economies, competition law itself has a history of twenty to twenty-five years at most...

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Methods for calculating cartel damages: a survey

Doose, Anna Maria - 2013

The paper focuses on the various methods used to quantify cartel damages, which have become more and more important as private damage suits in the aftermath of antitrust litigation increase. The approaches implementation is embedded into current legal environments with regards to the estimation...

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A Short Treatise on Amateurism and Antitrust Law : Why the NCAA's 'No Pay' Rules Violate Section One of the Sherman Act

Edelman, Marc - 2013

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) oversees nearly every aspect of the $11 billion college sports industry. Its powers include scheduling championship events, determining eligibility rules, entering into commercial contracts, and punishing members that refuse to follow its...

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Platform Discrimination Against Rivals : An Economic Framework for Antitrust Enforcement

Hovenkamp, Erik - 2023

There is widespread concern that dominant platforms may be undermining competition by discriminating against rivals in adjacent markets, such as by refusing to let rival sellers use their platforms or by engaging in “self-preferencing.” Such acts fall within a category of unilateral conduct...

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Causal Uncertainty and Damages Claims for Infringement of Competition Law in Europe

Lianos, Ioannis - 2016

In a tort law regime established on the basis of corrective justice considerations, causation requirements will tend to play a predominant role in regulating the damages claims brought forward. The requirement of the causal link between the harm suffered and the anticompetitive conduct in...

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‘Judging’ Economists : Economic Expertise in Competition Law Litigation - A European View

Lianos, Ioannis - 2013

by exploring the broader issues raised by the integration of economic expertise in litigation: in particular the risk of … moral hazard and adverse selection because of the epistemic asymmetry between judges and experts and the risk of expert bias … economics and other social sciences, such as the preservation of the scientific 'competition' in the supply of economic theory …

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The Political Misuse of Antitrust

Waller, Spencer Weber - 2020

The increased importance of antitrust as a campaign issue and a political conversation raises long-standing troubling issues of whether antitrust enforcement (or non-enforcement) can, and is, being used for partisan political purposes. First, there were long standing rumors of White House...

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Rebating antitrust fines to encourage private damages actions

Emons, Winand; Lenhard, Severin - 2020 - Version: January 2020

To encourage private actions for damages in antitrust cases some jurisdictions subtract a fraction of the redress from the fine. We analyze the effectiveness of this policy. Such a rebate does not encourage settlement negotiations that would otherwise not occur. If, however, the parties settle...

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