International Antitrust Enforcement and Multi-Market Contact [PDF]
This paper analyzes international antitrust enforcement when multinational firms operate in several markets with antitrust authorities in each market.
Heiko Gerlach, Jay Pil Choi
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Protecting Intermediate Innovations When Ideas Are Scarce: Patents or Secrecy?
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Patenting an intermediate research innovation can lead to competition for the development of a final commercial innovation and potentially induce wasteful duplicative R&D efforts. This study examines the effects of different protection strategies and patent life on the incentives to protect an intermediate innovation by considering a two‐stage
Bonwoo Koo, Jangho Yang, Brian D. Wright
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Competition Policy In Network Industries: An Introduction [PDF]
We discuss issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in which ...
Nicholas Economides
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On the relationship between antitrust and strategy: taking steps and thinking ahead
RAUSP: Revista de Administração da Universidade de São PauloIn this paper, I examine the role that strategic analysis has played on antitrust and discuss new analytical venues. In order to accomplish this goal, the paper presents two directions.
Guilherme Fowler de Avila Monteiro
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How Italian Colors Guts Private Antitrust Enforcement by Replacing it with Ineffective Forms of Arbitration [PDF]
, 2015 The United States is becoming more like Europe, and not in a good way. For a long time, the central difference between antitrust enforcement in the United States and Europe has been that the United States features not only public enforcement, but a ...
Elhauge, Einer
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Is Baseball Shrouded in Collusion Once More? Assessing the Likelihood that the Current State of the Free Agent Market will Lead to Antitrust Liability for Major League Baseball\u27s Owners [PDF]
, 2020 This Note examines how Major League Baseball’s (MLB) current free agent system is restraining trade despite the existence of the league’s non-statutory labor exemption from antitrust.
Mulry, Connor
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We Value Your Privacy: Behavior‐Based Pricing Under Endogenous Privacy
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study a duopoly model of behavior‐based pricing in which consumers can either disclose or hide their data. We contrast two data policies. Under an open data policy, disclosed data is shared with all firms. In the unique equilibrium, all consumers disclose, and firms price discriminate, leading to welfare losses from inefficient poaching ...
Friederike Heiny +2 more
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Seminar ‘Private Antitrust Enforcement – Mapping Challenges’ Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (CARS) Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw Warsaw, 30 March 2022 [PDF]
internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny, 2022 Marta K. Sznajder
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Competition Enforcement and Accounting for Intangible Capital
The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Antitrust laws mandate review of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that exceed an asset size threshold based on accounting standards that exclude most intangible capital. We show that this exclusion leads to thousands of intangible‐intensive M&As being nonreportable. Acquirers in nonreportable deals achieve higher equity values and price markups,
JOHN D. KEPLER +2 more
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Antitrust Policy and Environmental Protection [PDF]
We examine the effects of antitrust policy (the prohibition of a input price discrimination) when an emission tax is used for environmental protection. We show that antitrust policy reduces pollution emission and improves social welfare.
Hajime Sugeta, Shigeru Matsumoto
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