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advertising receipts. We show that this induces the editors of the newspapers to moderate the political message they display to …
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We analyse the rivalry between two TV-channels competing both on the market for audience and the market for advertising …. We identify the nature of TV-programs emerging from this competition, and the quantity of advertising that TV …
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In this paper we consider a two-stage duopoly game where firms first decide whether to invest in advertising and then … compete in prices. Advertising has two effects: a market enlargement for both firms and a predatory gain for the investing … investment in advertising and that strong product substitutability may induce a coordination problem. …
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Since the introduction of a formal commitments procedure in EU an- titrust policy (Article 9 of Council Regulation 1/2003), the European Commission has extensively settled cases of alleged anticompetitive practices. In this paper, we use a formal model of law enforcement (Be- bchuk, 1984; Shavell,...
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We examine the effect of the Amnesty Plus policy on the incentives of firms to engage in cartel activities. Amnesty Plus is aimed at attracting amnesty applications by encouraging firms, convicted in one market, to report their collusive agreements in other markets. It has been vigorously...
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In the framework of consumer theory ala Lancaster, in which preferences are defined over bundles of characteristics embodied in goods rather than over goods themselves, a concept of "irrelevant" product differentiation is introduced and its relevance at equilibrium is analyzed. It is also argued...
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characterize both the competitive and the monopoly market outcomes. When there are two types of risk, the monopoly dominates … competition is less trivial. In effect monopoly is shown to provide better insurance but at the cost of driving out some agents … from the market. Performing simulation for different distributions of risk, we find that monopoly in general performs (much …
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, magazines, newspapers, the Internet, and television (the illustrative example henceforth). Most advertising expenditures are … incurred for these media. They are also mainly supported by advertising revenue. Early work stressed possible market failures … sides are coordinated by broadcasters (or "platforms") that choose ad levels and program types, and advertising finances the …
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This paper investigates the effect of ethnolinguistic conflict on redistribution. The analysis focuses on the conflict arising between "peripheral" minority groups and a dominant "center". We propose an index of linguistic conflict that (i) encompasses both diversity and polarization, and (ii)...
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