The Determinants of State-Level Antitrust Enforcement [PDF]
While there has been a considerable literature exploring determinants of antitrust enforcement in the United States, studies have been based either on aggregate federal enforcement data over time (exploring cyclical influences) or cross-industry studies,
Kara M. Reynolds, Robert M. Feinberg
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Polish Leniency Programme and its Intersection with Private Enforcement of Competition Law [PDF]
This paper is devoted to the Polish leniency programme, including the conditions of obtaining lenient treatment and the applicable procedure. The type, scope and form of information that must be submitted are commented on as well as the marker system and
Ewelina Rumak, Piotr Sitarek
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We Value Your Privacy: Behavior‐Based Pricing Under Endogenous Privacy
ABSTRACT We study a duopoly model of behavior‐based pricing in which consumers can either disclose or hide their data. We contrast two data policies. Under an open data policy, disclosed data is shared with all firms. In the unique equilibrium, all consumers disclose, and firms price discriminate, leading to welfare losses from inefficient poaching ...
Friederike Heiny +2 more
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Private International Cartels: Effectiveness, Welfare, and Anticartel Enforcement [PDF]
This paper presents and analyses economic data on 167 international cartels that were discovered by antitrust authorities after January 1990. The median cartel had five corporate members and generated $1.2 billion in sales during the collusive period ...
John M. Connor
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Aggregate Market Power: Measurement, Drivers, and Macroeconomic Effects
ABSTRACT This survey reviews the macroeconomic literature on market power, focusing on its measurement, determinants, and macroeconomic effects. It synthesizes evidence from concentration ratios, business dynamism indicators, and markup/markdown estimates, documenting a distinct change in trends since the 1980s, especially in the United States ...
Maria Alessandra Rossi
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Maintaining New Markets: Determinants of Antitrust Enforcement in Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]
While others have examined the implementation and/or the stringency of enforcement of antitrust laws in post-socialist economies, this paper is the first study that attempts to explain the determinants of antitrust enforcement activity across post ...
Kara M. Reynolds +2 more
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Optimizing Private Antitrust Enforcement [PDF]
Private litigation is the predominant means of antitrust enforcement in the United States. Other jurisdictions around the world are increasingly implementing private enforcement models.
Crane, Daniel A.
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The Incentive Virtues of Performance‐Based Trade Allowances and Loss Leading
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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Innovation and Optimal Punishment, with Antitrust Applications [PDF]
This paper modifies the optimal penalty analysis by incorporating investment incentives with external benefits. In the models examined, the recommendation that the optimal penalty should internalize the marginal social harm is no longer valid as a ...
Keith N. Hylton, Haizhen Lin
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How to Facilitate Damage Claims? Private Enforcement of Competition Rules in Croatia – Domestic and EU Law Perspective [PDF]
Ever since the Croatian Competition Agency started functioning in 1997, public enforcement of competition law has been the norm. Civil actions for breaches of competition law have been the exception in Croatia.
Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman
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