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Detecting Favoritism in Public Procurement
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Favoritism as a mode of corruption is a major concern in public procurement (PP) in many countries. We propose a regression discontinuity design (RDD) test arguing that the winning history of marginal winners and losers can be used to detect favoritism.
Joosua Virtanen +2 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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The Incentive Virtues of Performance‐Based Trade Allowances and Loss Leading
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A retailer can boost demand for a manufacturer's product through non‐verifiable activities. Performance‐based trade allowances—rebates conditional on the retailer's successful sales efforts—help mitigate this moral hazard problem. In equilibrium, the wholesale contract includes a retail price set below cost, complemented by a rebate for ...
David Martimort, Jérôme Pouyet
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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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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 +3 more
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Polish Antitrust Legislation and Case Law Review 2010 [PDF]
Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2011 The article presents key developments in Polish antitrust legislation and case law of 2010. Regarding legislation, the article focuses on a new group exemption for agreements on motor vehicle distribution; also provided is a general characterisation of ...
Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Prior studies on crisis management often highlight the adaptiveness of generalist leaders, whose diverse functional experiences allow for flexible and innovative responses. However, we propose that in situations where crises lead to abrupt shifts in dominant institutional pressures, leaders with specialized functional backgrounds potentially ...
Yidi Guo, Danqing Wang, Shuo Chen
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Regime Shift in Antitrust [PDF]
This paper empirically models the longer-run deep-seated shift in intellectual thinking that followed the Chicago School’s criticism of the older antitrust doctrine, the shorter-run driving forces related to switches of the political party in power ...
Ghosal, Vivek
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