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The Patent Quality Control Process: Can We Afford An (Rationally) Ignorant Patent Office?

open access: yes, 2008
This paper considers patent granting as a two-tiered process, which consists of patent office examination (public enforcement) and court challenges (private enforcement).
Chiou, Jing-Yuan, Jing-yuan Chiou
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Development of Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Lithuania [PDF]

open access: yesYearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2015
The article reviews the jurisprudence of Lithuanian courts on private enforcement of competition law and identifies the main obstacles for the development of this practice.
Raimundas Moisejevas
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Competition Enforcement and Accounting for Intangible Capital

open access: yesThe Journal of Finance, Volume 81, Issue 3, Page 1217-1263, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Antitrust laws mandate review of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that exceed an asset size threshold based on accounting standards that exclude most intangible capital. We show that this exclusion leads to thousands of intangible‐intensive M&As being nonreportable. Acquirers in nonreportable deals achieve higher equity values and price markups,
JOHN D. KEPLER   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Antitrust Violations as Private Enforcement

open access: yes, 2019
On the whole, the dismantling of monopolies relies heavily on public enforcement. While the opportunity for private enforcement exists in the antitrust context, it is limited, as not all so-called monopolies commit antitrust violations.
Timmons, Abby L
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Hub‐and‐Spoke Collusion With a Third‐Party Pricing Algorithm

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 181-196, June 2026.
ABSTRACT A data analytics company delivers an efficiency by supplying a pricing algorithm that allows prices to more effectively respond to demand variation. In this setting, I consider a new form of hub‐and‐spoke collusion: A data analytics company (hub) coordinates the prices of competitors (spokes) through its pricing algorithm.
Joseph E. Harrington Jr.
wiley   +1 more source

Constitutional Questions about the Directive on Antitrust Damages Action: The Rule of Binding Effect of National Competition Authorities’ Decisions

open access: yes, 2019
The Directive 2014/104/EU fixes specific rules about the relationship between antitrust public enforcement and antitrust private enforcement. More specifically, Article 9(1) of the Directive states that National Competition Authorities’ decisions has got
Enrico Verdolini
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The Determinants of Negotiated Pharmaceutical Prices

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 234-260, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We focus on the determinants of pharmaceutical drug prices. Using data from the Brazilian pharmaceutical market, we find large variations in drug prices across buyers, drug classes, and time periods. Our estimation results provide evidence that transaction‐specific determinants between buyers and sellers (e.g., transaction volume, buyer's ...
Ralph B. Siebert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legislative Control of Rulemaking in a Dependent State: A Critical Typology From Brazil

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In Brazil, legislative control conditions regulatory agencies' rulemaking through substantive limits, procedural requirements, and ex post review. Drawing on legal analysis and documentary evidence, this article maps these mechanisms through a differentiated framework that combines legislative oversight scholarship, historical institutionalism,
Paulo Borges Mathias Costa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of EU Law on a National Competition Authority’s Leniency Programme – the Case of Poland [PDF]

open access: yesYearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2014
This paper is devoted to the impact of EU law on national leniency programmes, especially the Polish one. It analyses the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice in Pfleiderer, Donau Chemie and Schenker and identifies three specific areas of potential EU ...
Piotr Sitarek
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