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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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Intellectual Property, Antitrust and Strategic Behavior [PDF]
Economic growth depends in large part on technological change. Laws governing intellectual property rights protect inventors from competition in order to create incentives for them to innovate.
Robert H. Gertner, Dennis W. Carlton
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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 Growing Influence of Economics and Economists on Antitrust: An Extended Discussion [PDF]
Over the past two to three decades economics has played an increasingly important role in the development of U.S. antitrust enforcement and policy. This essay first reviews the major facets of U.S. antitrust enforcement and next reviews the ways in which
White, Lawrence J.
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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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Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking [PDF]
Passage of the Sherman Act in the United States in 1890 set the stage for a century of jurisprudence regarding monopoly, cartels, and oligopoly. Among American statutes that regulate commerce, the Sherman Act is unequaled in its generality.
William E. Kovacic, Carl Shapiro
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EXTRATERRITORIALITY OF THE SHERMAN ACT AND DETERRENCE OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL CARTELS [PDF]
This paper presents two major economic arguments relevant to a decision facing the U.S. Supreme Court in early 2004. In Empagran v. F. Hoffmann-LaRoche the Court must decide whether companies like Empagran, an Ecuadorian animal-feed manufacturer, ought ...
John M. Connor
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Commercialized Intercollegiate Athletics
Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, 2009 This article observes that American society’s passion for intercollegiate sports competition is an extremely powerful, naturally evolved cultural force.
Matthew J. Mitten +2 more
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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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Should merger policy be changed? An antitrust perspective [PDF]
Consolidation and merger of corporations ; Antitrust ...
William James Adams
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