From Open Banking Regulation to Platform Orchestration: The Evolution of Digital Platform Governance
ABSTRACT This study contributes to information systems (IS) scholarship by extending platform governance theory to regulatory contexts, explaining how regulatory forces co‐evolve with technological architectures to shape openness and control. This research examines the evolution of platform governance in the context of open banking, where regulatory ...
Priyadharshini Muthukannan +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Trade Policy and Antitrust: Do Consumers Matter to Legislators? [PDF]
We provide one of the first efforts to measure the importance of consumer preferences in legislators’ trade policy decisions by estimating the degree to which the level of antitrust enforcement in the legislator’s state impacts his or her vote on free ...
Kara M. Reynolds +2 more
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Mobility‐Restricting Covenants in Business Contracts: The Case of Franchising
ABSTRACT Several studies show that restrictive covenants in employment contracts, such as non‐compete agreements, may affect employees in detrimental ways, including by reducing mobility and suppressing wages. While such concerns are real, these clauses also have the potential to serve legitimate business purposes by helping companies protect valuable ...
Francine Lafontaine +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Sentencing in the Shadow of Promotion: The Impacts of Circuit Court Nomination on Federal Judges
ABSTRACT Judges seek to maximize their own utility, like everyone else. Their goals include job security and promotion. Federal judges lack the electoral incentives that often drive state judges, but they could audition for promotion. I test whether they audition for promotion in their criminal sentencing.
Nicholas Goldrosen
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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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The Impact of EU Law on a National Competition Authority’s Leniency Programme – the Case of Poland [PDF]
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
doaj
RPM and Vertical Integration With Upstream Competition and Noncontractible Efforts
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 +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Private Enforcement of Competition Law – the Case of Estonia [PDF]
Jurisprudence on private enforcement of competition law has so far been almost non-existent in Estonia. Most cases where competition law issues are raised within the context of damage claims are solved by out-of-court settlements. One of the main reasons
Karin Sein
doaj
ABSTRACT This study considers mutual outsourcing firms in a vertically related market and examines their strategic adoption of environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) activities. We demonstrate that ECSR adoption reduces mutual outsourcing firms' profits, resulting in a prisoner's dilemma situation, but enhances welfare regardless of ...
Lili Xu, Xinying Fan, Sang‐Ho Lee
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Appraisal of existing evidences of competition law and policy: Bilateral legislative developments of Sino-Pak. [PDF]
Soomro NE, Yuhui W.
europepmc +1 more source

