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Screening markets for cartel detection - collusive marker in the CFD cartel-audit

Lorenz, Christian - EconWPA - 2005

cartels cause failures in the observed process patterns. The CFD cartel-audit attempts to draw conclusions from these process … analysis and investigates whether they operate efficiently (See www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/cfd). The CFD cartel-audit should … enable the detection of cartels via characteristic market process patterns. This is based on the assumption that existing …

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Millers, Commission Agents and Collusion in Grain Auction Markets: Evidence From Basmati Auctions in North India

Banerji, A. - eSocialSciences - 2010

presence of a cartel consisting of a large (in market share) local miller and commission agents purchasing for large distant … collusion takes. Simulations indicate that (i) the cartel gains considerably by colluding, over the competitive outcome; (ii …

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MULTI-MARKET COLLUSION WITH TERRITORIAL ALLOCATION

Bhattacharjea, Aditya - eSocialSciences - 2012

This paper develops a super game model of collusion between price-setting oligopolists located in different markets separated by trade costs. The firms produce a homogenous good and sustain collusion based on territorial allocation of markets. We first show, in a more general framework than some...

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THE ECONOMICS OF NATURAL RESOURCE SCARCITY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Feige, Edgar L.; Blau, David M. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyses the problem of natural resource scarcity and its implications for economic development and international cooperation. We examine the meaning and measurement of resource “scarcity” and its implications for economic growth and development. The paper describes the conditions...

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Task Force to Explore Options other than Price Control for Achieving the Objective of Making Available Life-saving Drugs at Reasonable Prices

Pricing, Task Force on Pharmaceutical - eSocialSciences - 2005

The Task Force recommends that price regulation should be on the basis of â€˜Essentialityâ€™ of the drug and it should be applied only to formulations and not to upstream products, such as bulk drugs. No effort should be made to impose a uniform price, and only a ceiling price should be...

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Price regulation of airports

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

The terms of reference for this inquiry ask the Commission to assess whether price regulation of airport services is required at privatised airports and, if so, in what form this should take. The Commission's inquiry focusses on the core-regulated airports, including Sydney Airport. The...

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Draft National Pharmaceutical Policy, 2006

eSocialSciences; Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals - 2006

In 2002 the government had formulated a new Drug Policy, but the same could not be implemented due to litigation involving it. As a consequence, the policy of 1994 continues to be in force.The present Policy known as the National Pharmaceuticals Policy, 2005 has been necessitated due to several...

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L'actionnaire minoritaire, le commissaire, l'avocat et le juge : histoire d'une fusion litigieuse

TREBUCQ, Stéphane - EconWPA - 2005

The case of a French merger can be used to better understand the nature of conflicts of interest and cognitive …

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Do European computer-related patents increase welfare?

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2004

When the home country introduces a patent law after the winner of the patent race is known the country's welfare may rise only if the domestic firm wins. If the home country decides before the patent race ends, the welfare may be increased when the probability that the domestic firm wins is...

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Stochastic Market Sharing, Partial Communication and Collusion

Gerlach, Heiko - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the role of communication between firms in an infinitely repeated Bertrand game in which firms receive an imperfect private signal of a common value i.i.d. demand shock. It is shown that firms can use stochastic, inter-temporal market sharing as a perfect substitute for...

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