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Record W2739667836 · doi:10.3138/ccar.v3i1.335

Estimating Damages from Price-Fixing

2006· article· en· W2739667836 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Class Action Review · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicLaw, Economics, and Judicial Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDamagesWrightEstimationProduct (mathematics)Government (linguistics)EconomicsActuarial sciencePolitical scienceManagementLawEngineeringMathematics

Abstract

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This paper reviews the theory related to the estimation of damages arising from pricefixing. Our primary objective is to provide an overview of the major issues that arise when estimating these types of damages and we suggest how economists might reasonably proceed when undertaking to provide such estimates. We describe and critique the leading approaches to damage estimation in price-fixing cases with a particular emphasis on reduced-form econometric estimation of the price that would have obtained in the market “but for” the price-fixing. We also consider complications introduced for the estimation of both the magnitude and the distribution of the damages in cases in which the first buyer (a “direct purchaser”) of a price-fixed product resells it or incorporates it into a product which is then sold to (“indirect”) purchasers further downstream. * The authors are also both Senior Consultants with the Delta Economics Group Inc. They are grateful to the Phelps Centre for the Study of Government and Business in the Sauder School of Business at UBC and to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for financial support; and to Ann-Britt Everett and Jennifer Ng for excellent research assistance. As part of their work on cases involving damage assessment, they have also benefited significantly from discussions and communications with John Beyer, J. J. Camp, John Conner, Joe Fiorante, David Jones and Charles Wright.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
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Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.928
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
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Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

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Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it