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Internet search (or perhaps more accurately `web-search') has grown exponentially over the last decade at an even more rapid rate than the Internet itself. Starting from nothing in the 1990s, today search is a multi-billion dollar business. Search engine providers such as Google and Yahoo! have...
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This report studies the importance of efficiency gains from horizontal mergers. A general theme throughout this report … analysis. The first chapter considers the presence of efficiencies from mergers, with a focus on economies of scale. The second …
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antitrust authorities would prohibit, partially permit, or permit PEO. …
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This paper presents some of the most important microeconomic tools used in assessing antitrust and merger cases by the … shown what are the market forces and economic factors that determine how cartels, which are at the core of antitrust policy …
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antitrust makes normative assessment and generalizations superfluous. In a combination of two lines of argumentation, diversity … meaning of efficiency, or the goals of antitrust. Secondly, it is demonstrated that diversity of theories represents no …
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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in mobile telecommunications. Using a uniquely constructed panel of mobile operators’ prices and accounting information across 33 OECD countries between 2002 and 2014, we document...
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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in mobile telecommunications. Using a uniquely constructed panel of mobile operators’ prices and accounting information across 33 OECD countries between 2002 and 2014, we document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659539
This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product market rivalries that emerges endogenously out of the characteristics of the products and services they supply. My model embeds a novel, highly tractable and scalable demand system...
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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product market rivalries that emerges endogenously out of the characteristics of the products and services they supply. My model embeds a novel, highly tractable and scalable demand system...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013503368
This aim of this paper is twofold. First it examines the determinants of acquisitions and divestitures of Dutch firms in the period 1996-2004. Second, it investigates the impact of acquisitions and divestitures on the firm’s innovative output performance. An econometric model is specified and...
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