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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"cartels"”.
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Export cartels and economic development
This research aims to dispel the myth that export cartels should be prohibited because they restrain competition and, thus, holds back economic development. It also proposes the conditions under which export cartels promote economic development. In contrast to the myth, this research argues that, …
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Essays on cartels stability under antitrust policies
This thesis is composed of three essays about cartels’ stability under antitrust policies. The first essay aims to create a new approach to analyze optimal antitrust policies to combat cartels in a more general context. Using the repeated games theory we build a scenario where a cartel — any …
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The Organization and Regulation of International Shipping Cartels
… liner shipping industry is organized into cartels and has been for over one hundred years. This thesis consists of two parts: the first analyzes the shipping conference phenomenon from the perspective of industrial organization, and the second evaluates the regulation of the industry …
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The use of presumptions in determining liability for passive participation in price-fixing cartels: a comparative study
… worldwide share a common resolve to denounce cartels, they adopt varying approaches to their prosecution and punishment. The inherent secrecy of cartels makes it a daunting task to strike the right balance in legislative and governmental intervention. For that reason, courts in different …
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The criminalisation of cartels in South Africa, United States and Australia and the effects of the Corporate Leniency Policy
… Despite the criminal sanctions created to deter cartels, firms or directors still are involved in collusive conduct. Cartel activity could not only be damaging to a firms' or directors' reputation, but also results in significant financial losses. With the recent implementation of S73A5 there is …
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Street Gangs, Outlaw Bikers, the Mafia and the Mexican Cartels: Dynamics of Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in Canada
… into Canada has presented itself to the cartels in the form of recently immigrated Mexican-Canadian Mennonites, some of whom have long acted as Mexican cartel-agents. Despite the fearsome reputation of Mexican cartels, there has been no noticeable increase in drug-related violence in …
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The international ramifications of Germany's cartel system, 1920-1955
… This is due both to public apathy in respect to cartels, and the reluctance of firms to publicize their cartel arrangements. In addition to this the main emphasis of this report will stree to ramifications of Germany’s cartel upon the United States in the decade preceding World War II. This does …
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Competition class action damages and the corporate leniency policy
… in markets. Due to the secretive nature of cartels, and their conduct, they are extremely difficult for the Competition Commission1 (‘the Commission’) to detect, investigate and prosecute.2 Cartels therefore pose a grave threat to the maintenance of competition in markets. Section 4(1)(b) of …
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The criminalisation of cartel conduct in South Africa and the United Kingdom
Preventing cartels from forming or detecting and punishing existing cartels should therefore be an important task in every country. This paper shows how South Africa and the United Kingdom deal with this task by introducing criminal sanctions into their competition law for individuals engaging in …
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The information game : police-citizen cooperation in communities with criminal groups
Criminal groups -- gangs, mafias, and drug cartels, among others --
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Organized-crime growth and sustainment: a review of the influence of popular religion and beliefs in Mexico
… war between the government and various drug cartels that has proven the bloodiest conflict since the Mexican civil war a century ago. Meanwhile, the subculture of narco-cultura continues to grow, under the influence of powerful drug cartels throughout Mexico. The narco-cultura has its own …
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Fighting narcotraffic in Latin America: Mexico and El Salvador—a comparative approach
… crime for decades. While Mexico has fought drug cartels with the support of the U.S. government, El Salvador has struggled to lower high crime rates mostly with its own resources. Mexico, which has a different government structure from El Salvador’s, has not been able to control drug trafficking …
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Leniency Programmes, Competition, and Innovation
… programmes in detecting and destabilising cartels. I use industry-level panel data to track the changes in competition intensity as leniency programmes are implemented. The success of the leniency programme is captured by an increase in competition intensity (as measured by a drop in …
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The Verging Cities
… the violence of the cities from femicide to drug cartels and the effects this has on the speaker. The third is an extended poem that lyrically examines marriages and immigration through traditional epithalamia. The fourth becomes explicitly about the two cities and explores themes built around the …
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance
… a powerful deterrent to the formation of new cartels and an effective tool facilitating the dismantling of existing cartels, thereby introducing a competition shock in the countries where they are enacted. While the connection between product market competition and firms’ financial decisions …
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FOUR ESSAYS ON OPTIMAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT
… essay provides a case study of EC ringleader cartels and discusses by means of a theoretical model the e¤ect of excluding ringleaders from leniency programmes on collusive prices. The second essay adds an experimental investigation of the former, and examines in particular the e¤ects on cartel …
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What have we learned from the War on Drugs? an assessment of Mexico's counternarcotics strategy
… face of increasing power and autonomy among the cartels, Mexico has acted independently to combat the rising levels of violence. Despite the apparent absence of pressure from the U.S., or evidence of likely success, Mexico still took action straight out of the U.S. playbook. This thesis will …
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The impact of institutional variables on measures of resource scarcity
… important non-cost institutional variables--cartels, wars, and depressions--are modeled as intervention variables to test whether they have exerted a significant impact on the trend of resource prices. Lastly, this research tests whether major technological advancements introduced in the …
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