Symposium on Mergers and Antitrust [PDF]
The Journal asked three mainstream industrial organization economists to comment on both current merger enforcement and merger reform proposals: Lawrence White, Franklin Fisher, and Richard Schmalensee. The Journal of Economic Perspectives organized this symposium to provide economists who do not specialize in industrial organization and policymakers ...
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Antitrust in the Not-For-Profit Sector [PDF]
Despite the conceptual differences between for-profit and non-profit firms stressed in conventional economic analyses of the non-profit sector, U.S. antitrust law generally does not distinguish between these two organizational forms.
Richard A. Posner, Tomas J. Philipson
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Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges
ABSTRACT Judges seek to maximize their own utility, like everyone else. Their goals include job security and promotion. Federal judges lack the electoral incentives that often drive state judges, but they could audition for promotion. I test whether they audition for promotion in their criminal sentencing.
Nicholas Goldrosen
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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]
Marta K. Sznajder
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On the relationship between antitrust and strategy: taking steps and thinking ahead
In 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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Expert Asymmetry: Evidence From Securities Litigation
ABSTRACT Modern litigation often involves two separate, extra‐legal features: (1) contingency fee arrangements with the plaintiff‐side attorney, and (2) a “battle of the experts” where the outcome of the case rests on conflicting expert witness testimony.
Adam Callister +2 more
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A short comment on Andriychuk [PDF]
When submitting my paper on the goals of Polish competition law, I was convinced that it would start a debate among Polish antitrust scholars and practitioners concerning this fundamental issue for any antitrust jurisdiction.
Dawid Miąsik
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We Value Your Privacy: Behavior‐Based Pricing Under Endogenous Privacy
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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Innovation and Optimal Punishment, with Antitrust Applications [PDF]
This paper modifies the optimal penalty analysis by incorporating investment incentives with external benefits. In the models examined, the recommendation that the optimal penalty should internalize the marginal social harm is no longer valid as a ...
Keith N. Hylton, Haizhen Lin
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Worker Heterogeneity and the Effect of Noncompetes on Firm Performance
ABSTRACT Using staggered state‐level changes in noncompete enforceability, we document that reduced enforcement increases profitability, valuation, productivity, and plant‐level growth in knowledge‐worker‐intensive firms relative to other firms. Critically, these gains are concentrated among the most productive knowledge‐worker firms, consistent with ...
Zhaozhao He, Modupe Babajide Wintoki
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