| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 489 pages) : illustrations |
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Contributions to economic analysis ; 282 |
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Contributions to economic analysis ; 282.
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| Contents |
Issues in antitrust enforcement / Vivek Ghosal, Joseph E. Harrington and Johan Stennek -- Remembrance of things past: antitrust, ideology, and the development of industrial economics / Stephen Martin -- The impact of the corporate leniency program on cartel formation and the cartel price path / Joe Chen and Joseph E. Harrington -- Optimal fines in the era of whistleblowers: should price fixers still go to prison? / Paolo Buccirossi and Giancarlo Spagnolo -- Instruments for cartel deterrence, and conflicts of interests / Cécile Aubert -- Lessons for competition policy from the vitamins cartel / William E. Kovacic [and others] -- Effectiveness of antitrust sanctions on modern international cartels / John M. Connor -- The economics of tacit collusion: implications for merger control / Marc Ivaldi [and others] -- The economics and politics of international merger enforcement: a case study of the GE/Honeywell merger / Jay Pil Choi -- The political economy of EU merger control: small vs. large member states / Henrik Horn and Johan Stennek -- A consumer surplus defense in merger control / Sven-Olof Fridolfsson -- EU merger remedies: an empirical assessment / Tomaso Duso, Klaus Gugler and Burcin Yurtoglu -- The significant impediment of effective competition test in the new European merger regulation: in theory and practice / Jérôme Foncel, Marc Ivaldi and Valérie Rabassa -- Vertical restraints and the effects of upstream horizontal mergers / Luke Froeb, Steven Tschantz and Gregory J. Werden -- Political stabilization by an independent regulator / Antoine Faure-Grimaud and David Martimort -- Saving section 2: reframing U.S. monopolization law / Timothy J. Brennan -- Private antitrust litigation: procompetitive or anticompetitive? / R. Preston McAfee, Hugo M. Mialon and Sue H. Mialon -- Antitrust in open economies / Joseph Francois and Henrik Horn |
| Summary |
Motivated by recent events and experiences in antitrust enforcement and policy in the United States and the European Union, and new insights and findings from academic research, this book presents a collection of theoretical, empirical and public policy-oriented articles representing recent research on the political-economy of antitrust. Political-economy is defined broadly to include the demand-side drivers of antitrust activity such as market failures and interest-groups, along with supply-side drivers including ideology and partisan politics as well as the importance of informational limita |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Restraint of trade.
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Consolidation and merger of corporations.
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Antitrust law.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Antitrust law
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Consolidation and merger of corporations
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Restraint of trade
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Antitrustwetgeving.
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Concurrentiebeleid.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ghosal, Vivek.
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Stennek, Johan.
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| ISBN |
9780080522920 |
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0080522920 |
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9781849508667 |
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1849508666 |
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