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Antitrust and Trade Regulation

2014

Cartels

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The Lessons From Libor For Detection And Deterrence Of Cartel Wrongdoing, Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz, D. Daniel Sokol Nov 2014

The Lessons From Libor For Detection And Deterrence Of Cartel Wrongdoing, Rosa M. Abrantes-Metz, D. Daniel Sokol

D. Daniel Sokol

In late June 2012, Barclays entered into a $453 million settlement with UK and U.S. regulators due to its manipulation of Libor between 2005 and 2009. Among the agencies that investigated Barclays is the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (as well as other antitrust authorities and regulatory agencies from around the world). Participation in a price fixing conduct, by its very nature, requires the involvement of more than one firm. We are cautious to draw overly broad conclusions until more facts come out in the public domain. What we note at this time, based on public information, is that the …


Transplanting Antitrust In China: Economic Transition, Market Structure, And State Control, Wentong Zheng Nov 2014

Transplanting Antitrust In China: Economic Transition, Market Structure, And State Control, Wentong Zheng

Wentong Zheng

This Article examines the compatibility of Western antitrust models as incorporated in China's first comprehensive antitrust law – the Antimonopoly Law ("AML") – with China's local conditions. It identifies three forces that shape competition law and policy in China: China's current transitional stage, China's market structures, and pervasive state control in China's economy. This Article discusses how these forces have limited the applicability of Western antitrust models to China in three major areas of antitrust: cartels, abuse of dominant market position, and merger review. Specifically, it details how these forces have prevented China from pursuing a rigorous anti-cartel policy, how …


Cartels, Corporate Compliance, And What Practitioners Really Think About Enforcement, D. Daniel Sokol Nov 2014

Cartels, Corporate Compliance, And What Practitioners Really Think About Enforcement, D. Daniel Sokol

D. Daniel Sokol

This article shows the limitations to the optimal deterrence-inspired cartel enforcement policy currently used by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. This article employs both quantitative and qualitative survey evidence of cartel practitioners to shed light upon the realities of US cartel enforcement policy. The empirical evidence provided by the practitioner surveys challenges the traditional assumptions behind the success of the DOJ’s cartel program. Perhaps the most interesting finding is that firms regularly game the leniency program to punish their competitors. For various reasons, firms and the DOJ have strong incentives to settle rather than to litigate cases in which …


Jurisprudenta In Materia Concurentei. Obligatia De A Solicita O Hotarare Preliminara., Emanuela Matei Dec 2013

Jurisprudenta In Materia Concurentei. Obligatia De A Solicita O Hotarare Preliminara., Emanuela Matei

Emanuela A. Matei

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