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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Antitrust laws"”.
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Unilateral patent misuse : a comparative study of U.S., EC and Brazilian patent and antitrust laws
… a comparison of U.S., EC and Brazilian patent laws.
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REITs & market power : an analysis of market power theory and antitrust policy
… the economic theory of market power and the antitrust laws. Economic concepts such as elasticity of supply, elasticity of demand, barriers to entry and market contestability are examined in a real estate context. The antitrust laws and the government's definitions of market power and relevant …
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The role of the Supreme Court in antitrust enforcement.
For more than one hundred years, American antitrust laws have helped to define the legal framework supporting the continuously expanding and developing American economy. This legal framework has not remained unchanged; rather, the antitrust laws have been revised and re-interpreted at fairly …
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Essays in real estate and finance
… that exploits the exogenous application of bank antitrust laws following bank mergers, I show that bank competition leads to more loans going to larger and safer borrowers. The second chapter shows that housing demand shocks from 2000-2006 are highly correlated the elasticity of housing supply in …
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Rethinking International Antitrust Regulation : a Window On The Future Of International Trade Conflicts
… activities span across global markets. Yet antitrust laws regulating those activities remain national. The need to comply with multiple different domestic antitrust regimes exposes multinational corporations to additional transaction costs, delays, and uncertainty. A lack of international …
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The criminalisation of cartels in South Africa, United States and Australia and the effects of the Corporate Leniency Policy
… of the United States and Australian advanced antitrust laws. Equally, as important also looking at what makes the United States and Australia more effective in their cartel detection and prevention. Particular attention will be given to the leniency policy which plays a pivotal role in …
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Puppets in chaos: airlines, regulators and strings
… accountable through self-regulation, whereas US antitrust is far more reactive, as breaches are dealt with upon petition. Experiences learnt from deregulating the US domestic air transport market may have influenced steps taken to liberalise the European sector, but the tables are now turned. …
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Taxing Conditions: The Fiscal interest of the State and the Rise of the Modern Corporation in America
… form. Emerging first in \NJ[,] the new laws allowed corporations to own each other, and using them capitalists solved their collective action problem of ruinous competition, reorganizing American industry in a great merger wave. The most famous explanation for why the law changed, the …
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Banking, law, and American liberalism: the rise and regulation of bank holding companies in the twentieth century
… the late nineteenth century with the advent of antitrust laws nor comprised a singular modality of reform. From the public provision of currency and credit to delegating and dispersing the privilege of money creation, from central banking to public utility regulation, antimonopolists pioneered …
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Three Essays on Measuring the Ex-ante Economic Impacts of Agriculture Technology Innovations
… gains also accrue to consumers. Further, U.S. antitrust laws that prohibit IPRs acquisition by the current monopolist increase consumer welfare by almost 50 percent. The second essay entitled 'Ex-Ante Analysis of the Benefits of Transgenic Drought Tolerance Research on Cereal Crops in …
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The impact of the TV white space unlicensed spectrum on the wireless industry competition
… arrives at the conclusion that due to strict laws and spectrum-sharing challenges, rural wireless service providers are the ones most likely to be using this spectrum as a Wi-Fi enhancement in their access points. This research assesses the real impact of the TVWS in wireless industry …
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The impact of competition and internal corporate governance mechanism on bank performance: the case of North American and European countries
This thesis examined the effect of antitrust law and bank concentration on European and North American bank performance and managerial slack. This study empirically investigated the interrelated issues of antitrust policy, competition, and corporate governance and showed their significant roles in …