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IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhac001
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引用次数: 3
Collusion as Environmental Protection—An Economic Assessment 合谋作为环境保护的一种经济评价
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-10-11 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhab025
C. Veljanovski
This article examines the relationship between the environment, sustainability, and European competition law. It shows that the European Commission’s decisional practice not to exempt anticompetitive agreements under Article 101(3) TFEU is because it selectively prosecutes hardcore cartels. The alleged ‘sustainability gap’ in EU antitrust is, therefore, more apparent than real. It is also shown that the Commission has adopted an efficient enforcement approach given the institutional and budgetary constraints it faces. On the other hand, the Commission’s guidelines on Article 101 TFEU lack coherence and consistency with its overarching Treaty obligations. The pros and cons of expanding Article 101(3) TFEU to take account of the third-party environmental and public policy factors are examined.
本文考察了环境、可持续性和欧洲竞争法之间的关系。它表明,欧盟委员会决定不根据《欧盟竞争法》第101(3)条豁免反竞争协议的做法,是因为它有选择地起诉核心卡特尔。因此,欧盟反垄断中所谓的“可持续性差距”与其说是真实存在的,不如说是表面现象。报告还表明,鉴于委员会面临的体制和预算限制,委员会采取了有效的执行办法。另一方面,委员会关于第101条TFEU的准则与其总体条约义务缺乏连贯性和一致性。本文探讨了扩大第101(3)条TFEU以考虑第三方环境和公共政策因素的利弊。
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引用次数: 0
Common Ownership Patterns in the European Banking Sector—The Impact of the Financial Crisis1 欧洲银行业的共同所有权模式——金融危机的影响1
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-10-08 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhab023
Albert Banal-Estañol, Nuria Boot, J. Seldeslachts
We provide a description of ownership patterns in the top 25 European banks for the period 2003–2015, where we especially focus on the global financial crisis. Investment managers, such as Blackrock, are dominant in terms of number of blockholdings in different banks, maintaining fairly stable “common ownership” networks throughout our sample. However, the financial crisis led to capital injections by governments in several banks in trouble, which in turn led to a jump in holdings by governments, which typically are “non-common owners” (i.e., they hold only shares in only one bank). This jump translated into these investors temporarily being the top investor with a large share, and non-common owners being the majority among large shareholders. A brief comparison with US banks uncovers large ownership differences between the European and US banking sectors. We briefly discuss what these ownership patterns might imply for competition, stability and performance in the banking industry.
我们提供了2003-2005年期间欧洲前25大银行的所有权模式描述,我们特别关注全球金融危机。投资经理,如贝莱德,在不同银行的大宗资产数量方面占主导地位,在整个样本中保持着相当稳定的“共同所有制”网络。然而,金融危机导致政府向几家陷入困境的银行注资,这反过来又导致政府的持股量激增,而政府通常是“非共同所有人”(即,他们只持有一家银行的股份)。这一跳跃转化为这些投资者暂时成为持有大量股份的顶级投资者,而非普通股所有者在大股东中占多数。与美国银行业的简短比较揭示了欧洲和美国银行业之间的巨大所有权差异。我们简要讨论了这些所有权模式对银行业的竞争、稳定性和绩效可能意味着什么。
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引用次数: 2
On the Risks of Using the Sequential Product-Level SSNIP Approach to Identify Relevant Antitrust Markets‡ 论使用序贯产品级SSNIP方法识别相关反垄断市场的风险
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhab020
Jorge Padilla, S. Piccolo, Pekka Sääskilahti
In a recent influential paper Coate et al. (2021) have criticized the sequential product-level approach to market definition in merger review. They argue that a simultaneous market-level approach to critical loss is more appropriate than a product-level critical loss analysis, because under certain plausible demand scenarios (nonlinear demand functions) the latter could yield the wrong answer on market definition—i.e., excessively broad or narrow markets. We extend their analysis by showing that a sequential product-level approach actually leads to an excessively narrow market definition when the typical nonlinear demand functions used in merger analysis are employed.
在最近一篇有影响力的论文中,Coate等人(2021)批评了合并审查中市场定义的顺序产品级方法。他们认为,市场层面的临界损失分析方法比产品层面的临界损失分析方法更合适,因为在某些看似合理的需求情景(非线性需求函数)下,后者可能产生市场定义的错误答案。市场过宽或过窄。我们扩展了他们的分析,表明当采用合并分析中使用的典型非线性需求函数时,顺序产品级方法实际上会导致过于狭窄的市场定义。
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Prospective Welfare Analysis—Extending Willingness-To-Pay Assessment to Embrace Sustainability 前瞻性福利分析——扩展支付意愿评估以拥抱可持续性
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-09-22 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhab021
R. Inderst, Stefan Thomas
In this paper, we outline how a future change in consumers’ willingness-to-pay can be accounted for in a consumer welfare effects analysis in antitrust. Key to our solution is the prediction of preferences of new consumers and changing preferences of existing consumers in the future. The dimension of time is inextricably linked with that of sustainability. Taking into account the welfare of future cohorts of consumers, concerns for sustainability can therefore be integrated into the consumer welfare paradigm to a greater extent. As we argue in this paper, it is expedient to consider changes in consumers’ willingness-to-pay, in particular if society undergoes profound changes in such preferences, for example, caused by an increase in generally available information on environmental effects of consumption, and a rising societal awareness about how consumption can have irreversible impacts on the environment. We offer suggestions on how to conceptionalize and operationalize the projection of such consumers’ changing preferences in a “prospective welfare analysis.” This increases the scope of the consumer welfare paradigm and can help to solve conceptual issues regarding the integration of sustainability into antitrust enforcement while keeping consumer surplus as a quantitative gauge.
在本文中,我们概述了如何在反垄断的消费者福利效应分析中解释消费者支付意愿的未来变化。我们解决方案的关键是预测新消费者的偏好和现有消费者未来不断变化的偏好。时间维度与可持续性维度密不可分。因此,考虑到未来消费者群体的福利,可持续性问题可以在更大程度上纳入消费者福利模式。正如我们在本文中所说,考虑消费者支付意愿的变化是有利的,特别是如果社会在这种偏好方面发生了深刻的变化,例如,由于消费对环境影响的普遍可用信息的增加,以及社会对消费如何对环境产生不可逆转影响的认识的提高。我们就如何在“前瞻性福利分析”中对这些消费者不断变化的偏好进行概念化和操作化预测提出了建议。这增加了消费者福利范式的范围,有助于解决将可持续性纳入反垄断执法的概念问题,同时保持消费者盈余作为一个定量指标。
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Designing Remedies for Digital Markets: The Interplay Between Antitrust and Regulation 为数字市场设计补救措施:反垄断与监管之间的相互作用
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-09-08 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhab022
Filippo Lancieri, Caio Mario S Pereira Neto
Regulatory interventions aimed at promoting competition in digital markets face a challenge: How to design remedies that actually improve welfare? This article helps provide an answer to this question. First, it maps out the frontier of remedy design: Part II.A summarizes antitrust and regulatory remedies imposed on digital companies over the past decades, while Part II.B reviews nineteen reports on competition in digital markets to identify proposals to advance antitrust or regulatory interventions. Part III, the core of the article, builds on this review to propose a new, two-level framework for remedy design that integrates pro-competition antitrust and regulatory interventions as part of a single policy. First, at the substantive level, it develops a compounded error-cost framework that helps authorities to choose between different remedies applicableto a given conduct: when policymakers accept higher risks of over-enforcement in deciding to intervene, they should compensate by taking lower risks of over-enforcement in remedy design and vice-versa. Second, at the institutional level, the article proposes that authorities consider separating three connected but different key activities in remedy design: (i) identifying harmful behavior, (ii) designing interventions, and (iii) monitoring and adapting remedies. It also outlines four criteria (legal mandate, need for technical expertise, relative risks of regulatory capture, and overall administrative costs) that can help authorities allocate these tasks among different regulators. Part IV concludes by applying this framework to seven types of conduct that Part II identified as potentially problematic: (i) discrimination, unfair treatment, and self-preferencing; (ii) exclusivity contracts; (iii) tying or bundling; (iv) MFNs and other price parity clauses; (v) refusals to deal, limited interoperability, and lack of data portability; (vi) exploitative or exclusionary terms of service; and (vii) nudges, sludges, and other concerns around user interfaces.
旨在促进数字市场竞争的监管干预面临着一个挑战:如何设计真正改善福利的补救措施?本文有助于回答这个问题。第二部分:救济设计的前沿。A部分总结了过去几十年来对数字公司实施的反垄断和监管补救措施,而第二部分。B审查了19份关于数字市场竞争的报告,以确定推进反垄断或监管干预的建议。第三部分是本文的核心,在此综述的基础上提出了一个新的两级补救设计框架,该框架将支持竞争的反垄断和监管干预作为单一政策的一部分整合在一起。首先,在实质性层面,它开发了一个复合错误成本框架,帮助当局在适用于特定行为的不同补救措施之间进行选择:当政策制定者在决定干预时接受过度执行的较高风险时,他们应该通过在补救措施设计中承担较低的过度执行风险来进行补偿,反之亦然。其次,在制度层面,本文建议当局考虑在补救措施设计中分离三个相互关联但不同的关键活动:(i)识别有害行为,(ii)设计干预措施,以及(iii)监测和调整补救措施。它还概述了四个标准(法律授权、对技术专长的需求、监管俘获的相对风险和总体行政成本),这些标准可以帮助当局在不同的监管机构之间分配这些任务。第四部分最后将这一框架应用于第二部分确定为潜在问题的七种行为:(i)歧视、不公平待遇和自我偏爱;(ii)排他性合同;(iii)捆绑或捆扎;最惠国待遇和其他价格平价条款;(v)拒绝处理、有限的互操作性和缺乏数据可移植性;(vi)剥削性或排他性的服务条款;(7)对用户界面的推搡、污蔑和其他担忧。
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Using the Statistical Concept of “Severity” to Assess the Compatibility of Seemingly Contradictory Statistical Evidence (With a Particular Application to Damage Estimation) 使用“严重性”的统计概念来评估看似矛盾的统计证据的兼容性(特别适用于损失估计)
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-08-27 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhab017
Peter Bönisch, R. Inderst
When parties present divergent econometric evidence, the court might either combine such evidence in an ad hoc way or view such evidence as contradictory and thus ignore it completely, without conducting closer analysis of the possible sources of the contradiction. We believe that the reasons for this development are (i) that the statistical evidence is often interpretated in a simplistic manner and (ii) that the fact is ignored that any statistical test tests within the boundary of a prespecified model which might be wrong. Contradictory evidence might therefore either occur by chance or because the underlying assumptions contradict each other. Based on the concept of severity, we propose a method to avoid common fallacies in the interpretation of empirical evidence. We further set out a simple method for distinguishing between actual and merely apparent contradiction based on the statistical concept of the “severity” of the furnished evidence. Our chosen application is that of damage estimation in follow-on cases.
当各方提出不同的计量经济学证据时,法院可能会以一种特别的方式将这些证据结合起来,或者将这些证据视为相互矛盾的证据,从而完全忽略它,而不对矛盾的可能来源进行更仔细的分析。我们认为,造成这种发展的原因是:(i)统计证据往往被简单化地解释,(ii)忽略了这样一个事实,即任何统计检验在预先规定的模型的边界内进行检验,这可能是错误的。因此,相互矛盾的证据要么是偶然出现的,要么是因为潜在的假设相互矛盾。基于严重性的概念,我们提出了一种方法来避免在经验证据的解释中常见的谬误。我们进一步提出了一种简单的方法,根据所提供证据的“严重性”的统计概念,区分实际矛盾和仅仅是表面矛盾。我们选择的应用是后续案件的损害估计。
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Reflective Willingness to Pay: Preferences for Sustainable Consumption in a Consumer Welfare Analysis 反思支付意愿:消费者福利分析中的可持续消费偏好
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-08-09 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhab016
Roman Inderst, Stefan Thomas
Our starting point is the following simple but potentially underappreciated observation: When assessing willingness to pay (WTP) for hedonic features of a product, the results of such measurement are influenced by the context in which the consumer makes her real or hypothetical choice or in which the questions to which she replies are set (such as in a contingent valuation analysis). This observation is of particular relevance when WTP regards sustainability, the ‘non-use value’ of which does not derive from a direct (physical) sensation and where perceived benefits depend heavily on available information and deliberations. The recognition of such context sensitivity paves the way for a broader conception of consumer welfare (CW), and our proposed standard of ‘reflective WTP’ may materially change the scope for private market initiatives with regards to sustainability, while keeping the analytical framework within the realm of the CW paradigm. In terms of practical implications, we argue, for instance, that actual purchasing decisions may prove insufficient to measure consumer appreciation of sustainability, as they may rather echo learnt but unreflected heuristics and may be subject to the specific shopping context, such as heavy price promotions. Also, while preferences may reflect the current social norm, the latter may change considerably over time as more consumers adapt their behaviour.
我们的出发点是以下简单但可能被低估的观察:在评估产品享乐特征的支付意愿(WTP)时,这种测量的结果受到消费者做出真实或假设选择的背景或她回答的问题的设置(例如在条件评估分析中)的影响。当WTP考虑到可持续性时,这一观察结果特别相关,其“非使用价值”不是来自直接的(物理)感觉,而感知到的利益在很大程度上取决于可用的信息和审议。对这种环境敏感性的认识为更广泛的消费者福利(CW)概念铺平了道路,我们提出的“反思性WTP”标准可能会在可持续性方面实质性地改变私人市场倡议的范围,同时将分析框架保持在CW范式的范围内。就实际意义而言,我们认为,例如,实际的购买决策可能不足以衡量消费者对可持续性的欣赏,因为它们可能更倾向于回应学习但未反映的启发式,并且可能受到特定购物环境的影响,例如大量的价格促销。此外,虽然偏好可能反映当前的社会规范,但随着时间的推移,随着越来越多的消费者适应他们的行为,后者可能会发生很大的变化。
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Italian Interlocking Ban: An Empirical Analysis of the Personal Ties Among The Largest Banking and Insurance Groups in Italy 评估意大利连锁禁令的有效性:对意大利最大银行和保险集团个人关系的实证分析
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-08-06 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhab014
F. Ghezzi, Chiara Picciau
In 2011, Italy introduced a ban on interlocking directorates in the financial sector, prohibiting members of the boards of directors and of the internal control bodies, as well as top managers of banking, insurance, and financial companies, from holding any such office in a competing company or group. Empirical studies have demonstrated conflicting results concerning the effectiveness of the Italian anti-interlocking provision. Some studies claim that interlocking directorates have decreased but have not been completely eliminated, which suggests possible persisting limits to competition. Other studies instead show the ban to have a procompetitive effect, at least in the banking sector, which would be at odds with a slight reduction in personal ties. Our article addresses this inconsistency by mapping the interlocking directorates among the 25 largest banking groups and the 25 largest insurance groups operating in Italy before and after the introduction of the ban. We show that although interlocking directorates were widespread at the end of 2010, the interlocking ban reached its goal in the banking and insurance sectors. Anticompetitive effects may, however, still exist, especially considering that the anti-interlocking provision does not affect ownership connections among competing financial companies and groups.
2011年,意大利出台了一项禁止金融部门连锁董事的禁令,禁止董事会成员、内部控制机构成员以及银行、保险和金融公司的高级管理人员在竞争公司或集团中担任任何此类职务。实证研究表明,关于意大利反联锁规定的有效性,结果相互矛盾。一些研究声称,连锁董事已经减少,但尚未完全消除,这表明竞争可能持续受到限制。相反,其他研究表明,这项禁令具有促进竞争的作用,至少在银行业是这样,这与个人关系的轻微减少是不一致的。我们的文章通过绘制禁令引入前后在意大利运营的25家最大的银行集团和25家最大的保险集团之间的连锁董事关系来解决这种不一致。我们表明,尽管联锁董事在2010年底普遍存在,但联锁禁令在银行和保险业达到了其目标。然而,反竞争效应可能仍然存在,特别是考虑到反联锁条款并不影响相互竞争的金融公司和集团之间的所有权联系。
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Incentivizing Private Antitrust Enforcement to Promote Leniency Applications 激励私人反垄断执法促进宽大申请
IF 1.5 4区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI: 10.1093/JOCLEC/NHAB009
Sinchit Lai
Both leniency programs and private antitrust enforcement are essential in combating cartels. The literature demonstrates that society benefits from both increased private actions and leniency applications. However, the present view is that private enforcement discourages cartel members from seeking leniency. Proponents of this view blame follow-on civil actions in the wake of successful public antitrust enforcement cases. This concern hinders the development of private antitrust enforcement. Nevertheless, the literature that expresses such a concern fails to consider standalone civil actions’ impact. Building on a game theory model of leniency programs by Professor Joseph E. Harrington, this article reinvestigates the relationship between the two seemingly contradictory procedural devices of leniency programs and private enforcement. Considering a revised leniency game, this article reveals that incentivizing private antitrust enforcement does not necessarily discourage leniency applications. Accordingly, this article proposes ways for legislators to use private enforcement as a tool to promote leniency applications.
宽大处理项目和私人反垄断执法在打击卡特尔方面都是必不可少的。文献表明,社会受益于增加的私人行为和宽大的应用。然而,目前的观点是,私人执法阻止了卡特尔成员寻求宽大处理。这种观点的支持者将其归咎于成功的公共反垄断执法案件之后的后续民事诉讼。这种担忧阻碍了私人反垄断执法的发展。然而,表达这种关注的文献没有考虑独立民事诉讼的影响。本文以哈林顿教授提出的宽大处理的博弈论模型为基础,重新考察了宽大处理与私人执行这两种看似矛盾的程序手段之间的关系。考虑到修改后的宽大游戏,本文揭示了激励私人反垄断执法并不一定会阻碍宽大应用。因此,本文提出了立法者利用私人执法作为促进宽大适用的工具的方法。
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