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Private Enforcement, Corruption, and Antitrust Design

Grajzl, Peter - 2015

Recent adoption of competition laws across the globe has highlighted the importance of institutional considerations for antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of substantive law. Contributing to the resulting nascent...

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

Watzinger, Martin - 2017

We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having...

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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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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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Patent Pools, Litigation and Innovation

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2021

This paper analyzes patent pools and their effects on innovation incentives. It is shown that the pro-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple conclusion may not hold if we entertain the possibility...

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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 designed to limit the potential anticompetitive effects of cooperation by alliance partners in hub-to-hub markets, where they provide overlapping nonstop service. While the paper...

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Buying to Sell : Private Equity Buyouts and Industrial Restructuring

Norback, Pehr-Johan - 2013

We show how temporary ownership by private equity firms affects industry structure, competition and welfare. Temporary ownership leads to strong investment incentives because equilibrium resale prices are determined by buyers incentives to block rivals from obtaining assets. These incentives...

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Wholesale Price Discrimination and Parallel Imports

Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E. - 2021

We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). In this context we show that if competition policy requires uniform wholesale prices across locations it would push retail...

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Optimal Liability Sharing and Court Errors : An Exploratory Analysis

Boyer, Marcel - 2013

We focus in this paper on the effects of court errors on the optimal sharing of liability between firms and financiers …, governments and courts we show, through numerical simulations, the distortions in liability sharing between firms and financiers … firm innocent of inappropriate care) errors. This role is considered in a context where liability sharing is already …

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