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Anti- versus Pro-Competitive Mergers
Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
In a framework where mergers are mutually excluding, I show that firms pursue anti- rather than (alternative) pro-competitive mergers. Potential outsiders to anti-competitive mergers refrain from pursuing pro-competitive mergers if the positive externalities from anti-competitive mergers are...
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Open Versus Closed Platforms
Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
This paper studies an industry in which firms can choose to provide open or closed platforms. Open platforms, as opposed to closed, are extendable so third-party producers can develop extensions for them. Building on a two-sided market model, I show that firms might prefer to commit to keeping...
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Mergers by Partial Acquisition
Lindqvist, Tobias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
This paper evaluates partial acquisition strategies. The model allows for buying a share of a firm before the actual acquisition takes place. Holding a share in a competing firm before the acquisition of another firm, outsider-toehold, eliminates the insiders' dilemma, i.e. profitable mergers do...
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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 before the acquisition of another firm, outsider-toehold, is more profitable in some market constellations, due to the positive externality on the outsider (competing) firm when a...
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Network Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis
Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
competing for Internet access customers. Additionally, we discuss how price and non-price discrimination strategies may be used …
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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
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 discrimination but no exclusive contracts; and (iv) no regulation: the …
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Supply Function Equilibria: Step Functions and Continuous Representations
Holmberg, Pär; Newbery, David; Ralph, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
In most wholesale electricity markets generators must submit step-function offers of supply to a uniform price auction …, and the market is cleared at the price of the most expensive offer needed to meet realised demand. Such markets can most … discontinuity of the required steps can rule out pure-strategy equilibria and may result in price instability. This paper argues …
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Supply Function Equilibria of Pay-as-Bid Auctions
Holmberg, Pär - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
-ups of the derived equilibrium are compared to results for the SFE of a uniform-price auction. …
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A Consumer Surplus Defense in Merger Control
Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
A government wanting to promote an efficient allocation of resources as measured by the total surplus, should strategically delegate to its competition authority a welfare standard with a bias in favour of consumers. A consumer bias means that some welfare increasing mergers will be blocked....
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Entry Regulations, Product Differentiation and Determinants of Market Structure
Maican, Florin; Orth, ´Matilda - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
We use a dynamic oligopoly model of entry and exit to evaluate how entry regulations affect profitability and market structure in retail. The model incorporates demand and store-level heterogeneity. Based on unique data for all retail food stores in Sweden, we find that the average entry costs...
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