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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment
Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2013
This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670793
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Two-Sided Markets with Pecuniary and Participation Externalities
Schmidtke, Richard - CESifo - 2006
point of view perfect competition is not always desirable. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196311
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Private Provision of a Complementary Public Good
Schmidtke, Richard - CESifo - 2006
For several years, an increasing number of firms have been investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in such a non-excludable public good cannot be appropriated, companies can benefit indirectly in a complementary proprietary segment. We study this incentive for investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406315
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - CESifo - 2011
provisions. This points to a basic trade-off between the goals of raising competition in technology-intensive markets and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024844
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On the Choice of Royalty Rule to Cover Fixed Costs in Input Joint Ventures
Fjell, Kenneth; Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - CESifo - 2013
incorporated. We find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877877
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Competition in the Presence of Individual Demand Uncertainty
Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - CESifo - 2013
This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877946
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Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - CESifo - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551016
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556079
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - CESifo - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727295