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We review the enforcement of competition policy and the activities of Turkish Competition Authority during 1997-2000. Descriptive statistics are provided on the caseload handled, such as types of anti-competitive behavior investigated, breakdown of investigations by industry, violations found,...
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broad conclusion that can be drawn is that information unearthed during a given criminal investigation and prosecution often … reveals information about other conspiracies leading to future investigations and prosecutions; (2) an increase in civil … enforcement leads to future increases in the criminal cases and firms and individuals convicted. This suggests that information …
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Most late 19th-century US economists gave a rather cool welcome to the Sherman Act (1890) and, though less harshly, to the Clayton and FTC Acts (1914). A large literature has identified several explanations for this surprising attitude, calling into play the relation between big business and...
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butadiene rubber cartel case (e.g. in Trade-Stomil v Commission). Finally, the Commission dealt with a merger case with a truly …
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This paper presents a statistical analysis of the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) evaluated by the Argentinean competition authority, from 1999 to 2011. In particular, we analyze the evolution of the quantity of cases using different classifications and cross checks in accordance with the nature...
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There has been a continuing growth in urbanisation in developing countries, and governments’ face a major challenge in ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of...
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This is a discussion of the manuscript "Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News" by L. George and C. Hogendorn, presented at the 11th Workshop on Media Economics, which was held at the Recanati Business School, Tel-Aviv University, October 9-10, 2013.
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information to condemn a cartel. The authority has two instruments at her disposal: rewarding the inspector with a proportion of … the collected fine or providing him with information which enhances the probability of the success of the prosecution …. More precisely, we explore the efficiency consequences of a contest between the audit inspector and the cartel. Both of …
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With the increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT), researchers are able to use computer … software tools to find, organise, manipulate, analyse, and share relevant information. However, there are hundreds of such …
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Not only the gamescom fair in Cologne and the games convention fair in Leipzig have recently shown that the often ridiculed games industry (PC, console and mobile gaming) has long since matured into a serious economic sector on a par with the film industry. Since the days of TV games the gaming...
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