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Lawyer CEOs and Strategic Disclosure of Litigation Loss Contingencies
Abacus, EarlyView.Using hand‐collected data, we find that lawyer CEOs, defined as CEOs with a legal education background, tend to make first disclosures about pending litigation cases on a timelier basis for litigation cases that end up with material losses than do non‐lawyer CEOs.
Feng Chen +3 more
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The Overcharge as a Measure for Antitrust Damages
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Victims of antitrust violations can recover damages in court. Yet, the quantification of antitrust damages and to whom they accrue is often complex. An illegal price increase somewhere in the chain of production percolates through to the other layers in a ripple of partial pass-ons. The resulting reductions in sales and input demands lead to additional
Han, M.A., Schinkel, M.P., Tuinstra, J.
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Rethinking the contract‐failure theory
American Business Law Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The contract‐failure theory posits that the nonprofit form can be an indicator of high product quality because the nondistribution constraint reduces the nonprofit manager's financial benefits from cheating. This would give nonprofits an advantage over for‐profit firms when consumers cannot determine product quality and thus explains ...
Yumiao Wang
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Rebating Antitrust Fines to Encourage Private Damages Actions
, 2020 To encourage private actions for damages in antitrust cases some jurisdictions subtract a fraction of the redress from the fine. We analyze the effectiveness of this policy. Such a rebate does not encourage settlement negotiations that would otherwise not occur.
Emons, Winand, Lenhard, Severin
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Guiding Section 5: Comments on the Commissioners [PDF]
, 2013 FTC Commissioners Joshua Wright and Maureen Ohlhausen have proposed that the Commission adopt Guidelines for the application of Section 5 to Unfair Methods of Competition.
Salop, Steven C.
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Workplaces offer a practical setting for alcohol and other drug interventions, especially in industries where impairment introduces substantial risk. Screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment has demonstrated effectiveness in health care settings and shows promise in workplace settings.
Kirrilly Thompson +2 more
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Disclosure of Documents in Private Antitrust Enforcement Litigation [PDF]
Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2015 Procedural tools aimed at access to information in general, and disclosure of documents in particular, are crucial for the effectiveness of private antitrust enforcement litigation and for facilitating more genuine equality of arms.
Aleš Galič
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper considers the theory of antitrust damages and then discusses some simple models for proving them. Antitrust damages theory begins with the premise that many practices alleged to violate the antitrust laws cause no consumer harm. Others are inefficient and have few socially redeeming virtues.
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, 2005 In its landmark ruling in Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois in 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted standing to sue for recovery of antitrust damages to direct purchasers.
Rüggeberg, Jakob +2 more
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Innis Lecture: Algorithmic pricing and competition
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how advances in AI‐driven algorithmic pricing are reshaping the nature of cartel formation and coordination. Traditionally, cartels relied on explicit communication, extensive organization, and sustained human effort to reach and maintain agreement while avoiding detection.
Robert Clark
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