FOUR ESSAYS ON THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EFFECTIVE ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT

Crede, Carsten (2017) FOUR ESSAYS ON THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EFFECTIVE ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT. Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia.

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Abstract

This thesis consists of four essays that relate to the design and implementation of e?ective competition policy in the ?elds of cartels and merger control. The ?rst essay contains a new empirical cartel screen that can be used to detect cartels in market data to increase deterrence. The second essay uses an experimental analysis to study the determinants of tacit collusion after the end of cartels and develops policy suggestions to prevent such outcomes. The third essay provides an experimental study on the use of endogenous ?nes for cartels to reduce the harm caused by them by lowering the optimal cartel price. In the fourth essay a new empirical framework for the ex post evaluation of the e?ects of mergers and acquisitions in clustered data is developed and used to study the occurrence of spillover e?ects in multi-market merger control cases.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User:	Bruce Beckett
Date Deposited:	26 Jul 2018 10:40
Last Modified:	18 Feb 2019 15:18
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67870
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