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This paper estimates the extent to which market power is a source of production misallocation. Productive inefficiency occurs through more production being allocated to higher cost units of production, and less production to lower-cost production units, conditional on a fixed aggregate quantity....
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Economic growth has been restricted in developing countries because of the existence of high degrees of concentration and numerous market failures affecting development. In these types of markets, implementation of competition law and policy is fundamental to work toward a much-desired...
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This paper studies differential pricing by an upstream monopolist whose cost to supply the intermediate good differs across buyers in the downstream. It is shown that, different from third degree price discrimination based on the downstream firms' cost of transforming the intermediate good into...
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monopolist has incomplete information and cannot implement the monopoly outcome: The expected pre-merger equilibrium price of the … downstream product is lower than the monopoly price. After a vertical merger, the equilibrium input price that is charged to the …, respectively. However, in all cases the equilibrium price of the downstream product increases to the monopoly price. Therefore, the …
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This paper examines the effect of private label sold by one of two retailers (the “chain store”) on wholesale prices in the intermediate goods market. Under sym- metric retail costs, the chain store can make the wholesale price lower than its rival (the “local store”) when the private...
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The Intercontinental Exchange's current attempted acquisition of NYSE-Euronext is the third takeover proposal in as many years. In this article the two previous attempts are reviewed and lessons are drawn from an antitrust and competition policy perspective concerning the evolving competitive...
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inframarginal fans' utility. In some cases, the monopoly outcome is optimal, while in others the optimum league size is between the … competitive and monopoly solutions …
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undermining consumer welfare.Economist Joseph Schumpeter warned against such monopoly fatalism. He recognized that the most … extremely skeptical about predictions of entrenched monopoly power for Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft today …
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In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...
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Price markups over marginal cost are often higher on "aftermarket" parts and services for durable goods than they are on the goods themselves. A popular explanation is that the aftermarket good is used as a "metering" device. This paper explores what happens in the metering model as foremarket...
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