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I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement … investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in several jurisdictions, information acquired in, for example, a M&A investigation … typically cannot be directly used for a cartel case due to the underlying statutes and the legal and administrative procedures …
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I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement … investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in several jurisdictions, information acquired in, for example, a M&A investigation … typically cannot be directly used for a cartel case due to the underlying statutes and the legal and administrative procedures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277361
I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement … investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in several jurisdictions, information acquired in, for example, a M&A investigation … typically cannot be directly used for a cartel case due to the underlying statutes and the legal and administrative procedures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181122
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I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement … investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in several jurisdictions, information acquired in, for example, a M&A investigation … typically cannot be directly used for a cartel case due to the underlying statutes and the legal and administrative procedures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147742
community to deter future cartel formation. We present two simple theoretical models, focussing respectively on composition and …
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This paper deals with the optimal enforcement of competition law between merger and anti-cartel policies. We examine … account the ensuing incentives for firms in terms of choice between cartels and mergers. To the extent that a tougher anti-cartel …
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We investigate cartelists’ merger behavior using European Commission (EC) cartel decisions over a 28-year span and … information on cartelists’ merger activities over the last 30 years. We find that mergers occur frequently. But they cluster in a … few particular industries and usually include only a minority of the cartel participants. The EC’s leniency programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147170
We investigate cartelists' merger behavior using European Commission (EC) cartel decisions over a 28-year span and … information on cartelists' merger activities over the last 30 years. We find that mergers occur frequently but that they cluster … in a few particular industries and usually include only a minority of the cartel participants. The EC's leniency program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147493
We study the timing of leniency applications using a novel application of multi-spell discrete-time survival analysis for a sample of cartels that were prosecuted by the European Commission (EC) between 1996 and 2014. The start of an EC investigation does not affect the rate at which...
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