Corporate leniency programs for antitrust: Past, present, and future
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Keywords
Leniency programs; antitrust; competition policy; cartel.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- L44 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Antitrust Policy and Public Enterprise, Nonprofit Institutions, and Professional Organizations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2023-10-09 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-LAW-2023-10-09 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-REG-2023-10-09 (Regulation)
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