Arbeitspapier

Die Bedeutung der Verhaltensökonomie für das Kartellrecht

Hardly any antitrust lawyer would deny that antitrust needs solid foundations in economics. Antitrust authorities hire economists, if they do not even haven the position of a chief economist. Antitrust not only capitalises on economic theory, but it is equally sensitive to empirical studies, be it case studies or econometrics. Yet antitrust has been much less open to behavioural research, although quite some antitrust issues are reflected in a rich body of experimental evidence. This paper mainly serves a methodological purpose. Relying on a meta-study of oligopoly experiments published elsewhere, it demonstrates in which way experimental evidence can productively be introduced into the antitrust discourse. To that end, it presents main effects, interaction effects, effect sizes and multivariate statistics, and discusses pertinent doctrinal reflection points. The paper concludes by showing how a new experiment, triggered by a doctrinal issue, can be used to inform the antitrust authorities.

Language
Deutsch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2008,40

Classification
Recht
Subject
Kartellrecht
Wettbewerbsaufsicht
Wissenschaftliche Methode
Verhaltensökonomik
Test
Oligopol

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Engel, Christoph
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2008

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Engel, Christoph
  • Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Time of origin

  • 2008

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