Experimental Economics for Antitrust Law and Policy

Normann, Hans-Theo

doi:10.2139/ssrn.950206

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Experimental Economics for Antitrust Law and Policy

35 Pages Posted: 8 Dec 2006

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Hans-Theo Normann

Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Department of Economics; Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Date Written: November 2006

Abstract

This paper assesses the scope and the specific contribution of laboratory experiments for antitrust law and policy. We review experiments that have addressed specific antitrust issues, problems and institutions. The paper covers experimental papers in basically all areas of competition policy making. Price conspiracies and parallel conduct; predatory pricing, price discrimination and vertical restraints; and merger policy. We also review two experiments designed to closely mimic actual antitrust cases.

Keywords: Antitrust, experimental economics, policy experiments

JEL Classification: C90, C91, C92, C93

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Normann, Hans-Theo, Experimental Economics for Antitrust Law and Policy (November 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=950206 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.950206