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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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Worker Heterogeneity and the Effect of Noncompetes on Firm Performance

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The origin and evolution of the competition law in Europe (legal theoretical analysis)

RUDN Journal of Law, 2014
This article describes the author's approach to the analysis of prerequisites for the origin of antitrust law and its development and evolution in the European Union, which was influenced by the American doctrine of antitrust law and obtained a modified ...
K V Smirnova
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Influence of the General Principles of Community Law on Polish Antitrust Procedure [PDF]

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2010
This article presents the new legal problems related to the decentralization of the enforcement of Community competition law. The study shows that Regulation 1/2003 did not only give national antitrust authorities new rights and competences in that ...
Marcin Kolasiński
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RPM and Vertical Integration With Upstream Competition and Noncontractible Efforts

The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study RPM and vertical integration in a common agency setting with two differentiated manufacturers and one retailer, where consumer demand depends on both the manufacturers' and retailer's noncontractible efforts. Under vertical separation, the adoption of maximum RPM by both manufacturers is an equilibrium and intensifies competition ...
Michele Bisceglia, Mark Israel, Salvatore Piccolo, Paolo Ramezzana   +3 more
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Does Cyberspace Need Antitrust? [PDF]

E-commerce may prove a double-edged sword for antitrust enforcement. While the internet massively increases the potential size of the relevant market for any antitrust investigation, thereby reducing the need for antitrust activity, it also opens firms ...
Eric Crampton, Donald Boudreaux
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Lurking Patent Claims and Strategic Royalty Contracts

The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes optimal licensing contracts when a licensee faces the risk of future infringement claims by unknown patent holders. In a setting where a noncompeting licensor contracts with a monopolistic manufacturer, fixed‐fee licensing is optimal absent such claims.
Jay Pil Choi
wiley   +1 more source

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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Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló, Elanor Colleoni, Andreas Georg Scherer, Hannah Trittin‐Ulbrich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partisan preferences for antitrust policy

Political Science Research and Methods
Industrial concentration has increased in recent years with large companies consolidating their dominant positions. Concentrated markets are thought to benefit large firms as they earn elevated profits and gain political influence.
Ryan Brutger, Amy Pond
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