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It is a core principle of antitrust law and theory that reduced market concentration lowers the risk of anticompetitive …
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The market concentration doctrine predicts that a horizontal merger is more likely to have collusive, anticompetitive … effects the greater the merger-induced change in industry concentration. Since a collusive, anticompetitive merger generates … doctrine that the merger-induced expected benefits to the product market rivals of the merging firms should be an increasing …
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pricing pressure, and the vertical arithmetic. In addition, for each tool, its use in a recent U.S. merger case is illustrated …: for critical loss analysis, the Novelis/Aleris merger; for upward pricing pressure, the GE/Electrolux merger; and for the …
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coordinated and unilateral competitive effects of merger. The central issue considered is when and how market shares, and market … concentration statistics derived from them, form an appropriate basis for presuming harm to competition from merger. This revision …
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We study the timing of leniency applications using a novel application of multi-spell discrete-time survival analysis for a sample of cartels prosecuted by the European Commission between 1996 and 2014. The start of a Commission investigation does not affect the rate by which conspirators apply...
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. We focus on a German coffee producer cartel that colluded under two different regimes: (i) involving wholesale prices in … without resale price maintenance in 2003. The cartel, however, broke down a few months after the announcement. The collusive … overcharge increased to 14% after the introduction of resale price maintenance, and the cartel lasted for a few years. We …
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