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Attention Manipulation and Information Overload

Persson, Petra - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

When a decision-maker’s attention is limited, her decisions depend on what she focuses on. This gives interested parties an incentive to manipulate not only the substance of communication but also the decision-maker’s attention allocation. This paper models such attention manipulation. In...

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Paying to Remove Advertisements

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

, the monopolist compares the potential direct revenues from consumers with lost advertising revenues from not … intermediating those consumers to advertisers. If the option is introduced, the media firm increases advertising quantity to make the … or decrease. Perhaps surprisingly, more annoying advertisements may lead to an increase in advertising quantity. …

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Efficiency Gains from Mergers

Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

The purpose of this report is to contribute to the analysis of two questions. Should a merger control system take into account efficiency gains from horizontal mergers, and balance these gains against the anti-competitive effects of mergers? If so, how should a system be designed to account for...

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Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness - Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations

Stennek, Johan; Verboven, Frank - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

This report studies the importance of efficiency gains from horizontal mergers. A general theme throughout this report is that efficiency gains, and their pass-on to consumers, may vary substantially from merger to merger. For this reason it seems appropriate to reconsider current practice in...

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Using Remedies In Russian Merger Control

Redkina, Anastasiya - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2014

This article is motivated by a growing interest in the problem of merger control quality assessment. Remedies are one of the instruments of merger control and have a significant influence on the results of it. This paper aims to build and empirically evaluate a discrete choice model of merger...

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Merger Control and Enterprise Competitiveness - Empirical Analysis and Policy Recommendations.

Stennek, J.; Verboven, F. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

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The Auctioning of a Failing Firm

Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

This paper evaluates the welfare consequences of the failing firm doctrine in the EU and US merger laws. I combine an oligopoly model with an "endogenous valuations" auction model. Thereby, I take into account that, in an oligopoly, a firm's willingness to pay for the assets depends on the...

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Predation and Mergers: Is Merger Law Couterproductive?.

Persson, L. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

This paper studies the interaction between the incentives for predation and mergers. I show that the incentive for predation in an oligopoly is limited by the subsequent competition for the prey. This bidding competition is especially fierce when the prey's assets exert strong negative...

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Predation and Mergers: Is Merger Law Counterproductive?

Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

This paper studies the interaction between the incentives for predation and mergers. I show that the incentive for predation in an oligopoly is limited by the subsequent competition for the prey. This bidding competition is expecially fierce when the prey's assets exert strong negative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645374

Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy

Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Intellectual property rights and competition policy are intimately related. In this paper I survey the economic literature analyzing the interaction between intellectual property law and competition law and how the boundary between these two policies is drawn in practice. Recognizing that...

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