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Private Enforcement, Corruption, and Antitrust Design

Grajzl, Peter - 2015

antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of … precluding private antitrust enforcement as one salient choice in antitrust design depends on whether antitrust enforcement is … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of …

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How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation : Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree

Watzinger, Martin - 2017

antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having foreclosed the market for telecommunications equipment. The decree forced Bell …

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Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation

Choi, Jay Pil - 2010

markets and face antitrust enforcement in different jurisdictions. We are concerned with the effectiveness of leniency … programs and the benefits of international antitrust cooperation between agencies. When international antitrust prosecution is … effectively. We then discuss the effects of information sharing among antitrust authorities as a function of how much and which …

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The Economics of Investor Protection : ISDS versus National Treatment

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2019

Investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) are supposed to protect foreign investors against domestic policies causing “unjustified” harm. This paper scrutinizes the effects of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) and national treatment provisions in a two-period model where foreign...

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Abuse of Dominance and Antitrust Enforcement in the German Electricity Market

Duso, Tomaso - 2017

In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...

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International Agreements, Economic Sovereignty and Exit

Richardson, Martin - 2018

We develop a model in which it is uncertainty about the future domestic policy environment that both makes international cooperation attractive and induces the possibility of a nation reneging on such an international agreement. We show, in a fairly general setting in which the likelihood of...

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The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement : Using Information from Non-Cartel Investigations to Prosecute Cartels

Ghosal, Vivek - 2021

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...

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The Determinants of Election to the United Nations Security Council

Dreher, Axel; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew D.; … - 2021

predicts, for instance, World Bank and IMF loans. But who gets elected to the UNSC? Addressing this question empirically is not …

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Leniency Programs in a Multimarket Setting : Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus

Roux, Catherine; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2021

We examine the effects of Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus, influencing firms' whistle blowing incentives in one market, on their self-reporting decision in another market. Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus are proactive US strategies which aim at triggering multiple confessions by increasing the...

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Carve-Outs Under Airline Antitrust Immunity

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2009

This paper offers the first formal economic analysis of carve-outs under airline antitrust im- munity. Carve-outs are …

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