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Network Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers "on the other side" of the Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that...

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Strategic Interaction vs. Regulatory Compliance among Regulated Utilities: The Swedish Water Sector

Lundin, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

This study provides the first empirical test of strategic interactions in the pricing decisions of regulated utilities. Since publicly owned water utilities in Sweden are governed by a cost-of-service regulation, prices in neighboring municipalities should not affect the own price other than...

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Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation: Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price...

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Endogenous Mergers in Concentrated Markets.

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

This paper proposes an approach for prediction the pattern of mergers when different mergers are feasible. It … that in concentrated markets, mergers are conductive to market structures with large industry profits, and thus points to a … conflict between private and social incentives. It is shown how mergers may be undertaken in order to preempt other possible …

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Horizontal Mergers Without Synergies May Increase Consumer Welfare.

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

Markets with imperfect competition do not induce a cost-minimizing allocation of production between firms. The market's ability to rationalize production is even more limited if costs are private information to firms. Merger in such markets generate an efficiency gain associated with the pooling...

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Mergers by Partial Acquisition

Lindqvist, Tobias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

the insiders' dilemma, i.e. profitable mergers do not occur. This strategy may thus be more profitable for a buyer than …

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Acquisiton Strategies: Empirical Evidence of Outsider-Toeholds

Lindqvist, Tobias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

Theoretically, cross ownership may mitigate mergers, i.e. market concentrations. Holding a share in a competing firm …

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The Insiders' Dilemma: An Experiment on Merger Formation

Lindqvist, Tobias; Stennek, Johan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

mergers difficult. Mergers that should occur in equilibrium do not, since they require an unequal split of surplus. …

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Privatization, Investment and Ownership Efficiency

Friberg, Richard; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We provide a model that explains the following empirical observations: i) private ownership is more efficient than public ownership, ii) privatizations are associated with increases in efficiency and iii) the increase in efficiency predates the privatization. The two key mechanisms explaining...

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Getting a Better Price: Strategic Behaviour before Changes in Ownership of Corporate Assets

Friberg, Richard; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We propose a model of investments prior to corporate ownership changes. We derive conditions under which the selling of a firm triggers overinvestment by both the seller and the buyer prior to the asset transfer. In a setting with Cournot competition, we show that these incentives can drive the...

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