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We provide an empirical assessment of EC cartel enforcement decisions between 2000 and 2011. Following an initial characterisation of our dataset, we especially investigate the determinants of the duration of cartel investigations. We are able to identify several key drivers of investigation...
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Severe limitations on antitrust enforcement officials' knowledge and the potential impact of ill-advised investigations … single-firm conduct. Although it is common to depict antitrust enforcement as protecting market competition while other forms … of regulation are seen as intrusions (justifiable or not) into market operation, antitrust enforcement has …
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We show that the number of merger proposals (frequency-based deterrence) is a more appropriate indicator of underlying changes in merger policy than the relative anti-competitiveness of merger proposals (composition-based deterrence). This has strong implications for the empirical analysis of...
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In the inaugural issue of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Mr. Wils published an article discussing the … there are sound policy reasons why the European Commission and the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division do not, and …
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This article determines the overall purpose of the Antitrust statutes in two very different ways. First, it performs a … traditional analysis of the legislative history of the Antitrust laws by analyzing relevant legislative debates and committee … reports. Second, it undertakes a textualist or "plain meaning" determination of the purpose of the Antitrust statutes, using …
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in the United States and the world. The prevailing belief is that financial institutions' power and influence represent a … major threat to America.So what does antitrust have to say about this public unease? Few would likely believe the Supreme … capitalism. Over the past 30 years, antitrust policy lost its way and now has several paradoxes. But the current public sentiment …
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The conventional legal analysis of technical standard setting derives primarily from antitrust law. But antitrust … inherent limitations of the antitrust theories asserted against it to reach its opportunistic behavior.Another tool for … requirements of antitrust law and which is effective toward both defendants in private litigation and the broader community of …
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Package - tries to address this issue by sector specific rules, instead of general antitrust law. One other major conclusion …
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