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Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law

2012
The notion of private enforcement assumes some kind of deviation from the general discipline, in order to incentivize judicial initiatives of private parties. European law does not contemplate any consistent proxy of a specific regime shaped after the goal of promoting private initiatives against breach of competition law.
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“UMBRELLA EFFECTS” AND PRIVATE ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT

The Cambridge Law Journal, 2014
UMBRELLA effects arise where anti-competitive conduct by one or more market actors results in general price rises across the sector concerned. The Court of Justice of the European Union has, with its preliminary ruling in Case C-557/12, Kone and others v OBB-Infrastruktur AG, Judgment of 5 June 2014, EU:C:2014:1317, now addressed the potential legal ...
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Buyer cartels and private enforcement of antitrust policy

Managerial and Decision Economics, 2017
Collusion among buyers leads to social welfare losses, which provide the economic rationale for public enforcement of the antitrust law. This conduct also imposes losses on the victimized sellers, which provide the foundation for private enforcement through private damage actions. In this paper, we present a rigorous economic analysis of buyer cartels.
Roger D. Blair, Wenche Wang
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Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in the United States

2012
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Essays on public and private antitrust enforcement

2015
This dissertation contributes to the economic literature on public and private antitrust enforcement by providing four chapters with innovative and policy-relevant contents that allow the deduction of important implications for the enforcement of antitrust law.
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Challenges of Private Enforcement of Antitrust in Slovenia

2018
INTRODUCTION In recent years, the number of cases in which plaintiffs are seeking compensatory damages caused by anticompetitive behaviour and other forms of relief has been rising in Slovenia facing the courts, businesses and their representatives, to some extent even national competition authorities with novel and complex issues of antitrust private
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The role of private litigation in antitrust enforcement [PDF]

, 2009
In this article, we study the effects of encouraging private actions for breaches of competition law. We also analyze how to design a private litigation system which deters anticompetitive actions without deterring legitimate pro-competitive actions.
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Commitment decisions and private antitrust enforcement

Mercato Concorrenza Regole, 2012
This article provides a critical overview on the interaction between private antitrust enforcement and commitment decisions. Over the last few years there has been a significant use of commitment decisions, especially in Italy, to solve competition concerns in numerous cases, with the sole exclusion of hard core restrictions.
Pera Alberto, Codacci Pisanelli Giulia
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Recent Developments of Private Antitrust Enforcement

Mercato Concorrenza Regole, 2011
Il presente articolo si propone di analizzare, in una prospettiva di comparazione tra vari ordinamenti europei, la relazione esistente tra il public e il private enforcement della normativa antitrust in Europa e le maggiori criticità che relegano, in molti paesi di tradizione continentale, le azioni civili ad un ruolo residuale nel complessivo sforzo ...
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Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law

The Handbook focuses particularly on how the development of EU law negotiates the tension between market integration, national sovereignty and political democracy. The book begins with chapters examining constitutional issues, while further chapters address the establishment of a single market.
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