Private antitrust enforcement revisited: The role of private incentives to report evidence to the antitrust authority [PDF]
It is commonly believed that the possibility to sue privately for antitrust damages decreases the number of type II errors in enforcement at the cost of creating more type I errors.
Tim Reuter
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Private Antitrust Enforcement in the Presence of Pre-Trial Bargaining [PDF]
We study the effect of encouraging private actions for breaches of competition law. We develop a model in which a plaintiff, who may have private information about whether a breach of law has been committed, decides whether to open a case against a ...
Bourjade, Sylvain +2 more
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How to Facilitate Damage Claims? Private Enforcement of Competition Rules in Croatia – Domestic and EU Law Perspective [PDF]
Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2012 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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Private Ordering, Collective Action, and the Self-Enforcing Range of Contracts. The Case of French Livestock Industry [PDF]
Contract enforcement is acknowledged as a major issue in Law and in Economics. Contrasting substitution and complementary perspectives with respect to the role of private versus public enforcement institutions, this article analyses how contract law can ...
Armelle Mazé, Claude Ménard
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White Cartels, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the History of Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. [PDF]
, 2008 In 2008, Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. turned forty. In Jones, the U.S. Supreme Court held for the first time that Congress can use its enforcement power under the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, to prohibit private racial discrimination in
Miller, Darrell A. H.
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Vertical Restraints Facilitating Horizontal Collusion: ‘Stretching’ Agreements in a Comparative Approach [PDF]
, 2015 This article discusses the approaches of the European Union (EU) and of the United States (US) to the notions of agreement and concerted practice applied to horizontal collusive consequences of vertical restraints.
Lubambo De Melo, MO
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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
Rumak, Ewelina, Sitarek, Piotr
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The role of private litigation in antitrust enforcement [PDF]
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 ...
Bourjade, Sylvain
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The Antitrust of Reputation Mechanisms: Institutional Economics and Concerted Refusals to Deal [PDF]
, 2009 An agreement among competitors to refuse to deal with another party is traditionally per se illegal under the antitrust laws. But coordinated refusals to deal are often necessary to punish wrongdoers, and thus to deter undesirable behavior that state ...
Richman, Barak D.
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Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Polish Courts: The Story of an (Almost) Lost Hope for Development [PDF]
Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 2013 The article reviews judgments of Polish courts on private enforcement of competition law between 1993 and 2012. A quantitative analysis of this jurisprudence shows that very few cases of that type exist at all.
Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka
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