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The imperishable controversy over aquaculture Open
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On Communication and Collusion Open
We study the role of communication within a cartel. Our analysis is carried out in Stigler’s (1964) model of repeated oligopoly with secret price cuts. Firms observe neither the prices nor the sales of their rivals. For a fixed discount fa…
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The Global Economics of European Populism: Growth Regimes and Party System Change in Europe (The<i>Government and Opposition</i>/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2017) Open
The expanding literature on growth regimes has recently been applied to explain the growth of populist movements across the OECD. Such applications posit a stand-off between debtors and creditors as the core conflict that generates populis…
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This paper proposes a method to detect bid rigging by applying mutually reinforcing screens to a road construction procurement dataset from Switzerland in which no prior information about collusion was available. The screening method is pa…
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Bid Rigging and Entry Deterrence in Public Procurement: Evidence from an Investigation into Collusion and Corruption in Quebec Open
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The Centralization of EU Competition Policy: Historical Institutionalist Dynamics from Cartel Monitoring to Merger Control (1956–91) Open
The contemporary strength of EU competition policy does not stem naturally and mechanically from the Treaty of Rome, nor is it only a consequence of the spread of ‘neoliberal’ ideas or the single market programme. It is also the product of…
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Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins Open
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Memberless parties Open
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The Case for Paying College Athletes Open
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Detecting anomalous citation groups in journal networks Open
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Strategic Aspects of Difficult Global Challenges Open
This game‐theoretic paper distills various strategic aspects of difficult‐to‐handle global challenges, such as climate change, disease eradication, financial crises, nuclear weapon proliferation, trade boycotts, species preservation, and t…
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Managerial effort incentives and market collusion Open
We investigate the interactions between managers’ incentives to collude or compete, and incentives to exert effort. A manager privately chooses the competitive strategy of the firm, and his own effort to improve productivity; He may substi…
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Facilitating the Italian Mafia: The Grey Zone of Complicity and Collusion Open
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Protecting consumers and their data through competition law? Rethinking abuse of dominance in light of the Federal Cartel Office’s Facebook investigation Open
The Facebook proceeding of the German Federal Cartel Office is the latest among a number of competition law investigations that target large US-American technology companies. The Office suspects that Facebook abused its dominant position o…
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What Can the Duration of Discovered Cartels Tell Us About the Duration of All Cartels? Open
Estimates of average cartel duration and the annual probability of cartel death are based on data for discovered cartels. It is recognised that these estimates could be biased because the population of discovered cartels may not be a repre…
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The Curious Case of Competition and Quality Open
Alongside the consideration of price, competition authorities recognize that quality can be as, if not more, important in some markets. But as competition authorities also recognize, identifying and measuring the dimensions of quality impo…
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The Use of Leniency in EU Cartel Enforcement: An Assessment After Twenty Years Open
Since 1996, the European Commission has been operating a leniency programme, under which companies cooperating with its cartel investigations can obtain immunity from fines or a reduction of fines. Leniency plays a prominent role in Europe…
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Right-Wing Populist Party Organisation Across Europe: The Survival of the Mass-Party? Introduction to the Thematic Issue Open
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Breaking the cartel: the geography of the electoral support of new parties in Italy and Spain Open
The factors explaining the emergence and electoral success of new parties have been investigated extensively on a cross-national basis, but little is known about why their vote shares differ within a specific country at any given time. Thi…
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The Gains from Agricultural Groundwater Trade and the Potential for Market Power: Theory and Application Open
This article models and estimates the efficiency gains from using market‐based instruments relative to command and control to manage groundwater. A theoretical model of an imperfectly competitive groundwater market is developed to show how…
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Clientelism and cartelization in post-communist Europe: the case of Romania Open
The present thesis makes a twofold contribution to the existing literature. Firstly, it shows that clientelism complements cartelization, providing parties with stability in condition of weak mass mobilization. Secondly, it traces the spec…
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Imperfect cartelization in OPEC Open
A model of global oil production is applied to study cartelization by OPEC countries. We define a measure for the degree of cooperation, analogous to the market conduct parameter of Cyert et al. (1973), Geroski et al. (1987), Lofaro (1999)…
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Striking a Balance of Power between the Court of Justice and the EU Legislature: The Law on Competition Damages Actions as a Paradigm Open
The framework of EU law on cartel damages actions consists in part of rules established by the ECJ based on arts 101 and 102 TFEU in conjunction with the principle of effectiveness. These rules are an integral part of EU primary law. The n…
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The volume effect in cartel cases—a special challenge for damage quantification? Open
Cartel damage occurs in many different shapes. Actors that are beyond doubt heavily affected by a cartel agreement are the purchasers of the cartel—the direct same as the indirect ones. Economic insights teach us that they do not only suff…
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The Michoacanazo: A Case-Study of Wrongdoing in the Mexican Federal Judiciary Open
The Michoacanazo was a federal criminal trial in Mexico prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office against local and state public officials from the state of Michoacán who were indicted for having ties with the local drug cartel formally …
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Arbitrability of Cartel Damages Claims in the European Union: CDC, Kemira, and Microsoft Mobile Open
This article discusses whether cartel damages claims are arbitrable under EU law. Although it is settled that most types of competition disputes are arbitrable in principle, the Opinion of the Advocate General and the ruling of the Court o…