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One of the most interesting and challenging phenomena of our information age is the rapid and significant change that takes place in high-technology industries. This change is shaking some of our assumptions regarding the role of technology (e.g., endogenous or exogenous), productions methods...
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Growing concern about large digital platform companies, particularly Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple, exercising monopoly power has given rise to antitrust investigations that examine whether they are guilty of exclusionary practices. After defending the consumer welfare standard as the...
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This paper investigates the relationship between democracy and antitrust policy. Strong antitrust policies advance the … interests of consumers. We examine the empirical relationship between democracy, inequality, and antitrust policies in a broad … panel of countries from 1951 to 2010. Using a variety of empirical strategies, we find that democracy is predictive of …
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-constitutional foundation of liberal democracy and has over the past seven decades advanced into a powerful institution to defend markets across …
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Lead jurisdiction models represent one option how to extend and enhance contemporary interagency cooperation among competition policy regimes. They constitute a multilateral, case-related form of cooperation that is suited to effectively create a one-stop-shop for the prosecution of...
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The paper discusses the economic theory of international antitrust institutions. Economic theory shows that non-coordinated competition policies of regimes that are territorially smaller than the international markets on which business companies compete violate cross-border allocative efficiency...
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outside providers can improve agency capacity. Part IV concludes and offers recommendations to improve developing world …
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The United States stood virtually alone when it enacted its first antitrust statute in 1890. Today, almost all nations have adopted competition laws (the term used in most other nations), and US antitrust agencies interact with foreign enforc-ers on a daily basis. This globalization of antitrust...
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The FTC completed its antitrust investigation of Google in 2013 and, finding no evidence of antitrust violations, decided not to bring an enforcement action against the company. Although the FTC has concluded its investigation, Google’s competitors and critics, unhappy with the outcome,...
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