International Competition Policy: Information Sharing Between National Competition Authorities
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Using a common agency relationship where the agent has private information about its costs, I study the impact of the introduction of an information system that obliges each national competition authority to give information about the rms it has prosecuted when requested by another competition authority. I identify the conditions under which an "information-sharing system" is bene cal for each country that participates in it and how the behaviour of the multinational changes with the introduction of such an agreement.
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Information-Sharing Between Competition Authorities
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