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When the number of public civil antitrust suits is the dependent variable, the number of private suits tends to be a significant, positive influence. Higher levels of monopoly power, as measured by Tobin's q, tended to cause more public antitrust suits, contrary to earlier single equation studies. Interestingly, the number of public civil cases tended to reduce the number of private cases.","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T04:05:10Z (GMT). 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