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The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...
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Die aktuelle Diskussion um die Novellierung der deutschen Pressefusionskontrolle macht deutlich, welche Relevanz medienoekonomische Fragestellungen haben. Was jedoch bei dieser Diskussion haeufig vernachlaessigt wird, ist die intensive Betrachtung der oekonomischen Besonderheiten von...
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Die Studie ist eine überarbeitete Fassung der " Untersuchung einer verbesserten Konzentrationserfassung"und befaßt sich mit der Aufbereitung von Daten der amtlichen Statistik zur Unternehmenskonzentration. Ziele der Studie sind, die empirische Aussagefähigkeit der amtlichen Unternehmens- und...
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This paper explores the possibility of governments seeking to agree to apply competition policy-based considerations and disciplines in the context of unfair trade allegations before turning to `standard' antidumping remedies. The premise of proponents of antidumping action is that the existence...
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This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for whistleblowers affect cartel formation and prices. Antitrust without leniency reduces cartel formation, but increases cartel prices: subjects use costly fines as (altruistic) punishments....
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) of 4.5 percent. Dass zwischen der Qualität der Wettbewerbspolitik und dem Produktivitätswachstum eines Landes ein … entwickelt, das sie Güte der Wettbewerbspolitik messbar macht und es ermöglicht, die Auswirkungen der Wettbewerbspolitik auf das … Produktivitätswachstum zu beobachten. Die Studie zeigt: Verbessert sich die Wettbewerbspolitik gemessen an den hier genutzten Indikatoren um …
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While private actions for damages against price-cartels by direct and indirect customers receive much attention, it is largely unresolved to what extent other groups that are negatively affected may claim compensation. This paper focuses on probably the most important one: suppliers to a...
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We build a simple model to study service fee competition between an incumbent and an independent ATM deployer, and its optimal regulation. We use the model to analyze an actual regulation of such a market by competition authorities in Finland. We find that socially optimal first-best fees would...
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Modern antitrust engenders a possible conflict between public and private enforcement due to the central role of Leniency Programs. Damage actions may reduce the attractiveness of Leniency Programs for cartel participants if their cooperation with the competition authority increases the chance...
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We analyze how leniency affects cartel pricing in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model where the fine rates are linked to illegal gains and detection probabilities depend on the degree of collusion. A novel aspect of this study is that we focus on the worst possible outcome. We investigate the...
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