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On the effectiveness of Recidivism on Productivity Growth: Evidence from anti-cartel enforcement in the US

Fotis, Panagiotis; Polemis, Michael - 2024

Explicit collusion, or cartel behavior, involves coordinated efforts among firms within a market to restrict … competition for their mutual benefit. Recidivism in this context occurs when cartel members, previously fined for such activities …, establish a new cartel in the future. This paper examines 111 cartel cases from various markets and periods in the US to assess …

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(Lack of) Competition, Coordination, and Information Sharing in the Pork Industry: United States, 2009–2020

Donna, Javier; Walsh, Anita - 2023

n 2020, an antitrust lawsuit was filed against the Pork Integrators alleging a §1 Sherman Act violation. At the center of the Lawsuit, there is an alleged exchange of atomistic information about the Pork integrators’ operations using Agri Stats, Inc. as a clearinghouse. We use the Supreme...

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Settlements in cartel cases

Ascione, Aurora; Motta, Massimo - 2008

successful in triggering evidence by cartel participants and thus in determining the collapse of several cartels, it has not … reduced considerably the length of the cartel proceedings, which is another potential benefit of leniency programmes. In this … duration of cartel proceeding. …

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P2P: From File Sharing to Meta-information Pooling

Dagiral, Eric; Dauphin, Florian - 2005

P2P networks have mainly been used for downloading cultural goods. This sociological research focuses on the practices and norms of users and designers. Drawing on a qualitative survey, it explores the many ways sharing takes place. It looks at P2P networks as file sharing communities and probes...

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Inter-Modal Competition and Telecommunications Policy in the United States

Shelanski, Howard A. - 2005

This article discusses changes in the U.S. telecommunications market over the last decade and argues that increasing competitive substitution from wireless and internetbased communications has undermined the rationale for conventional monopoly regulation of incumbent local telephone carriers....

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Competition, Technocracy and Inequality

Paul, Cocioc - 2020

The article present a brief analyze of theoretical virtues of free competition in relation with some visible limits and negative consequences observed in real economic life. Social intervention to correct (at least in part) those social failures and the new responses of the firms are discussed...

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Abuse of collective dominance under the competition law of the Russian Federation

Avdasheva, Svetlana; Goreyko, Nadezhda; Pittman, Russell - 2011

In 2006, Russia amended its competition law and added the concepts of “collective dominance” and its abuse. This was seen as an attempt to address the common problem of “conscious parallelism” among firms in concentrated industries. Critics feared that the enforcement of this provision...

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Games judges don't play: predatory pricing and strategic reasoning in US antitrust

Giocoli, Nicola - 2010

by a peculiar alliance between Chicago-style price theory – which, contrary to game theory, considers predatory behavior …

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Villains or Heroes? Private Banks and Railroads after the Sherman Act

Cantillo, Miguel - 2016

Abstract This paper analyzes and measures the value that American private banks added as directors of non financial companies. Using data between 1874 and 1913, and an event study from 1906, I find that bank directors added about 20% of a firm's market capitalization. Collusive practices...

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Sentencing in Ireland's First Bid-Rigging Cartel Case: An Appraisal

Gorecki, Paul - 2017

-rigging cartel case and the methodology used in setting those sentences seriously undermines the effective enforcement of competition … months in the bid-rigging cartel was only three weeks wages or €7,500. No gaol sentence was imposed. The undertaking was … bid-rigging cartel case. If the sentences imposed by the Central Criminal Court are not successfully appealed as being …

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