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How regulation affects network and service quality in related markets

Haucap, Justus; Klein, Gordon J. - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2012

We analyze how network regulation affects investment into network infrastructure and complementary services. While regulation negatively affcets investment incentives in the regulated network market, the effects of network regulation on investment in complementary services can be either negative...

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Regulating advertising in the presence of public service broadcasting

Stühmeier, Torben; Wenzel, Tobias - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2012

Television advertising levels in Europe are regulated according to the Audiovisual Service Media Directive where member … advertising cap, regulation can be profit-increasing for both channels. If the public broadcaster is more strictly regulated, this … may benefit the commercial rival if higher revenues in the advertising market outweigh the loss in viewership. …

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Zugangsentgelte zur Infrastruktur der Deutsche Bahn AG: Fluch oder Segen durch vertikale Separierung?

Bataille, Marc; Coenen, Michael - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2010

It has been a policy proposal since long to vertically separate transport and infrastructure in Germany's railway sector. The proposal received new momentum, when selling the transport subsidiaries of Deutsche Bahn AG to the public was discussed in 2008/2009. While vertical separation is...

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Access regulation with asymmetric termination costs

Stühmeier, Torben - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2011

In many telecommunications markets incumbent providers enjoy a demand-side advantage over any entrant. However, market entrants may enjoy a supply-side advantage over the incumbent, since they are more efficient or operate on innovative technologies. Considering both a supply-side and a...

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Deregulation of shopping hours: The impact on independent retailers and chain stores

Wenzel, Tobias - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2010

This paper studies shopping hour decisions by retail chains and independent competitors. We use a Salop-type model where retailers compete in prices and shopping hours. Our results depend significantly on efficiency differences between retail chain and independent retailer. If the efficiency...

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The welfare impact of parallel imports: A structural approach applied to the German market for oral anti-diabetics

Duso, Tomaso; Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014

We investigate the welfare impact of parallel imports using a large panel data set containing monthly information on sales, ex-factory prices, and further product characteristics for all 700 anti-diabetic drugs sold in Germany between 2004 and 2010. We estimate a two-stage nested logit model of...

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Bertrand competition in markets with network effects and switching costs

Suleymanova, Irina; Wey, Christian - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2011

We analyze Bertrand duopoly competition in markets with network effects and consumer switching costs. Depending on the ratio of switching costs to network effects, our modelerates four different market patterns: monopolization and market sharing which can be either monotone or alternating. A...

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Unionization structures in international oligopoly

Pagel, Beatrice; Wey, Christian - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2012

We examine how competition in international markets affects a union's choice of wage regime which can be either uniform or discriminatory. Firms are heterogenous with regard to international competition. When unions choose their wage regimes sequentially, a discriminatory outcome becomes more...

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On the role of consumer expectations in markets with network effects

Suleymanova, Irina; Wey, Christian - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2010

We analyze the role of consumer expectations in a Hotelling model of price competition when products exhibit network effects. Expectations can be strong (stubborn), weak (price-sensitive) or partially stubborn (a mix of weak and strong). As a rule, the price-sensitivity of demand declines when...

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Targeted pricing, consumer myopia and investment in customer-tracking technology

Baye, Irina; Sapi, Geza - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014

We analyze how consumer myopia influences investment incentives into a technology that enables firms to track consumers' purchases and make targeted offers based on their preferences. In a two-period Hotelling setup firms may invest in customer-tracking technology. If a firm acquires the...

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