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Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007

This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...

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Technology Giants, the Moligopoly Hypothesis and Holistic Competition : A Primer

Petit, Nicolas - 2019

applied competition theory. We believe those defects can be cured with a rechanneling of antitrust policy towards certain …

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Innovation Competition, Unilateral Effects and Merger Policy

Petit, Nicolas - 2020

post-merger R&D efforts (including lower expenditure). SIEIC is distinct from the mainstream unilateral effects theory of … analysis lies a fundamental question of competition theory: under what conditions can variations of existing economic models be … applied in merger cases? This paper is divided into three sections. In Section I, the SIEIC theory of harm is described and …

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The Smallest Salable Patent-Practicing Unit ('SSPPU') Experiment, General Purpose Technologies and the Coase Theorem

Petit, Nicolas - 2016

In the last years, some Standard-Setting Organizations (“SSOs”) active in wireless communications have experimented new pricing principles for standard essential patents (“SEPs”). One of those experiments is the “SSPPU” rule. Under SSPPU, the licensing rates paid to owners of SEPs...

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Huaweï v. ZTE : Judicial Conservatism at the Patent-Antitrust Intersection

Petit, Nicolas - 2015

This paper argues that the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU in Huaweï v ZTE is of conservative craft. Huaweï v ZTE only extends by a razor-thin margin the zone of antitrust liability for patent owners. The Court appears reluctant to relax its traditional case-law that affirms...

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Cartels and Anti-Competitive Agreements

Marco Colino, Sandra - 2018

Antitrust and competition law have grown dramatically in importance and significance over the last fifty years. US antitrust law has been the principal source of inspiration for jurisdictions wishing to introduce regulation to control cartels and monopolization, and antitrust regulation has now...

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Collusive upward gasoline price movements in medium-sized German cities

Neukirch, Arne; Wein, Thomas - 2016

Do we have effective competition between the gasoline's big five oligopolists (Aral, Shell, Esso, Total and Jet) and fringe gasoline stations? Using 2014 Market Transparency price data from 66 cities with populations between 60,000 and 100,000, we analyze which brands lead price increases, the...

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Actions Speak Louder than Words : econometric evidence to target tacit collusion in oligopolistic markets

Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013

Tacit collusion reduces welfare comparably to explicit collusion but remains mostly unaddressed by antitrust enforcement which greatly depends on evidence of explicit communication. We propose to target specific elements of firms' behavior that facilitate tacit collusion by providing...

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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence

Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2018

Germany, we study a cartel breakdown to identify the effect of competition on transport distances. Our econometric analyses …

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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence

Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017

on average significantly lower in cartel years than in non-cartel years. …

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