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Publication games: In the web of reciprocity. [PDF]
The present processes of research assessment, i.e. focusing on one or a few, related, scientometrics, foster questionable authorship practices, like gifting authorship to non-contributing people.
Zoltán Barta
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How many cartels are there, and how long do they live? The answers to these questions are important in assessing the need for competition policy. We present a Hidden Markov Model that takes into account that often it is not known whether a cartel exists or not.
Hyytinen, Ari +3 more
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The strategy of most major business firms has to take into consideration cartels. This article discusses how firms can expect to behave inside cartels (firms as unitary actors), and how cartels altered corporate strategy and organizational development ...
Margaret C. Levenstein +1 more
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EX-POST EVALUATION OF MEAN-VARIANCE CARTEL FILTERS [PDF]
This study provides an ex-post evaluation of selected filters to find cartels. We evaluate whether filters incurred in type I errors, i.e., failing to recognize the presence of a cartel.
Matheus Humberto Migliari Ramalho +1 more
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The (Ab)use of Soft Law in Shaping EU Competition Law: Undermining the Effectiveness of Leniency Programmes [PDF]
One of the defining features of EU competition provisions is that they are enforceable and applicable by the authorities and courts of the European Union and those of its Member States.
Javier Guillen Carames
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The Discontent Cartel Member and Cartel Collapse: The Case of the German Cement Cartel [PDF]
We hypothesize a particular source of cartel instability and explore its relevance to understanding cartel dynamics. The cartel instability is rooted in the observation that, upon cartel formation, the relative positions of firms are often fixed which may lead some growth-conscious members to be discontent.
Harrington, Joseph +3 more
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Social media influencers account for a growing share of marketing worldwide. We demonstrate the existence of a novel form of market failure in this advertising market: influencer cartels, where groups of influencers collude to increase their advertising revenue by inflating their engagement.
Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Hinnosaar
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Particularities of Proving a Single and Continuous Infringement of EU Competition Rules [PDF]
A single and continuous infringement of EU competition rules is a qualified form of infringement of EU Competition Law characterized by the existence of a global plan having a single objective between undertakings.
Mirna Romić
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Evaluating Leniency with Missing Information on Undetected Cartels: Exploring Time-Varying Policy Impacts on Cartel Duration [PDF]
This paper examines the effects of European Commission’s (EC) new leniency program on the EC’s capabilities in detecting and deterring cartels. As a supplementary analysis, the US leniency is studied.
Zhou, Jun
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Twentieth-century cartel registers, operated in a number of countries predominantly from around 1950 to the early 1990s, are a new international field of research.
Frode Steen, Eirik Østerud
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