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Some Critical Provisions in the Antimonopoly Laws of Central and Eastern Europe

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

Antimonopoly laws must contain effective provisions for the attack of exclusionary behavior by firms with market power while at the same time not attacking procompetitive behavior by entrants or incumbents. This paper suggests seven textual criteria by which a new law may be evaluated in its...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561465

Competitive Balance in the Portuguese premier league of professional soccer

Marques, Antonio - EconWPA - 2002

made an evaluation on the evolution of the competitive balance in the Portuguese premier league of professional soccer. The …

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The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware

Dranove, David; Gandal, Neil - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper, we empirically measure the effect of the DIVX preannouncement in the DVD market. We do this by measuring the effect of potential (incompatible) competition on a network undergoing growth. We find that there are network effects in the DVD market and that the preannouncement of DIVX...

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Economia sintetica

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 1998

Theoretical study identifying one modality with conditions necesary for the financial stabilization of an inherently unstable system; and 5040 other unstable dynamic modes. It draws on knowledge made available by the academic field of Control Engineering.

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Competition Law in Central and Eastern Europe: Five Years Later

EconWPA; U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division - 2001

The first generaation of competition laws in Central and Eastern Europe -- enacted in 1990 and 1991 in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Russia -- have undergone significant amendments following their earliest enforcement period. This paper uses an analytical framework previously used to...

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Free-Agency and the Competitiveness of Major-League Baseball

II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996

I investigate whether the removal of the reserve clause in professional baseball has affected the competitive nature of … the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index for homeruns and strikeouts in professional baseball from 1920 to 1993, and relate them to … structural changes in baseball. I isolate the structural effect of free-agency and find no evidence that free agency has altered …

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Offensive Performance, Omitted Variables, and the Value of Speed in Baseball

Turocy, Theodore L. - EconWPA - 2003

This note considers the problem of estimating the marginal products of offensive events towards a baseball team …

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Forecasting the Professional Team Sporting Events: Evidence from Euro 2000 and 2004 Football Tournaments

HALICIOGLU, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This study aims at predicting the most likely winners of international football tournaments. To this end, this paper …-of-season points from domestic football leagues to measure the degree of competitive balance and to use it as a comparative indicator … between the contesting countries in international football tournaments. The seasonal CV values computed from over ten seasons …

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Bidding Markets

Klemperer, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

. Furthermore we argue that the term ‘bidding market’ as it is widely used in antitrust is unhelpful or misleading. Auctions and …

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Artfilms, Handicrafts and Other Cultural Goods: The Case for Subsidy

Aubert, Cecile; Bardhan, Pranab K.; Dayton-Johnson, Jeff - EconWPA - 2004

Though widespread, the practice of public subsidies for cultural activity lacks a rigorous and consistent economic rationale. We analyze a canonical market structure that characterizes much cultural activity: the competition of mass-produced goods with heterogeneous non- standardized goods that...

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