Why and how do policymakers initially sceptical of policy innovations from abroad eventually transfer them to their own countries? Focusing on Chile's reforms to combat business cartels in 2009 and 2016, this article answers ...

Why and how do policymakers initially sceptical of policy innovations from abroad eventually transfer them to their own countries? Focusing on Chile's reforms to combat business cartels in 2009 and 2016, this article answers ...

Stock market reactions to news of cartel prosecutions are muted when indicted firms have a high proportion of independent directors serving on their boards. This finding is robust to self-selection and is more pronounced ...

Stock market reactions to news of cartel prosecutions are muted when indicted firms have a highproportion of independent directors serving on their boards. This finding is robust to self-selectionand is more pronounced ...

The SIC has found the target of creating a business cartels is to eliminate competition among market participants leading to a low variety and quality of goods or services and prices increases, therefore harming consumers ...

We study the financial leverage of firms that collude by forming a cartel. We find that cartel firms have lower leverage ratios during collusion periods, consistent with the idea that reductions in ...

Auction is a procedure for allocating resources with good results. I present the theoretical literature on auctions, which shows that, under several conditions, auctions led to allocate resources efficiently and to maximize ...

Drawing from the protest paradigm and the mediation opportunity structure, this study textually analyzes mainstream and alternative media coverage of the 2019 inequality protests in Chile and the 2020 racial justice protests ...