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Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector

Krueger, Alan B. - 2018

In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition for workers. Based on an analysis of 2016 Franchise Disclosure Documents, we find that...

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Theory and evidence on employer collusion in the franchise sector

Krueger, Alan B.; Ashenfelter, Orley - 2018

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Vertical Restraints and Labor Markets in Franchised Industries

Callaci, Brian; Pinto, Sergio; Steinbaum, Marshall; … - 2022

This paper combines 530 digitized franchising contracts at the franchise chain level with employer-identified job ads … from Burning Glass Technologies to establish stylized facts about franchising labor markets and their relation to the …-poaching Clauses, among many others, to a low-wage workforce. A legal regime that favors the franchising business model incentivizes …

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No-poaching clauses in franchise contracts : anticompetitive or efficiency enhancing?

Lafontaine, Francine; Saattvic, Saattvic; Slade, … - 2024

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Collusion and Network Effects : Modeling the Dynamics of Single- and Multi-Sided Platforms

Abrantes-Metz, Rosa M.; Metz, Albert - 2021

In this paper we apply a general model of one-sided and two-sided platform businesses to a collusive framework which we model as joint profit maximization. We have a particular interest in how the social loss and other metrics depend on the strength of the network (direct or indirect) effect. We...

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A Theory of Antitrust Limits

Petit, Nicolas - 2021

foundations of antitrust limits has not been systematically treated. This Article addresses this problem by supplying a theory of … judicial errors that goes beyond simplistic presuppositions about the efficiency of market processes and inefficiencies of the …

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Can Short Term Limits on Strategic Vertical Restraints Improve Long Term Cable Industry Market Performance?

Olson, James W.; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2004

competitive harm to consumers created by a particular vertical restraint against the likely efficiency benefits arising from the …

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Collusion by Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Schrepel, Thibault - 2020

Blockchain may transform transactions the same way the Internet altered the dissemination and nature of information. If that were to be the case, all relationships between companies would change, including prohibited ones such as collusive agreements. For that reason, the stakes are crucial and...

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U.S. Convergence with International Competition Norms : Antitrust Law and Public Restraints on Competition

Cooper, James C.; Kovacic, William E. - 2014

In this Article we focus upon an area in which greater convergence of U.S. policy with the practice of many foreign countries is long overdue: the treatment of public policies that suppress competition. Whereas the European Union (“EU”) and numerous other jurisdictions have taken strong...

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Multiple Ownership, Collusion and Unusual Result Patterns in Soccer

Globan, Tomislav; Jägers, Ed - 2019

Expanding on the literature on antitrust, multiple ownership, and collusion in sports, this paper finds a very unusual result pattern between two clubs competing in the Croatian soccer league—Lokomotiva and Dinamo Zagreb. Their close sporting and business relationship has raised many questions...

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