We study bilateral cross-licensing agreements among N(> 2) firms that engage in competition after the licensing phase …

Competition among multi-store chains is common in retail industries. This paper proposes a method for estimating a … clustering stores (economies of density) and lost revenues from competition with one's own stores (own-chain business … consumers to the acquirer. Second, I examine how eliminating the zoning regulation introduced in Japan in 1968, which has been …

prices on both sides of the market, most of the literature has avoided models with Bertrand competition on both sides or has … policy simulation in the context of competition policy, it is important that equilibria exist and are unique. Otherwise, one …

This paper deals with competition in communications markets between an incumbent and an entrant. We analyze the effect … sustainability of collusion in an infinitely repeated game framework. We show that the bundling strategy of the entrant might hinder … collusion. Futhermore, we consider a setting in which the entrant uses a one-way access that the incumbent possesses. In such …

In this paper we study the implications of service level guarantees (SLGs) in a model of oligopoly competition where … providers compete to deliver a service to congestion-sensitive consumers. The SLG is a contractual obligation on the part of the … oligopoly models of price competition, greatly simplifying the analysis of this otherwise complex competitive scenario. Notably …

An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices. While the standard view is that competition … access, with or without competition from a digital subscriber line provider, and using education dispersion as a proxy for …, competition reduces prices. As education dispersion increases, the negative effect of competition on prices diminishes; and when …

This paper discusses the economics of the Internet backbone. I discuss competition on the Internet backbone as well as … relevant competition policy issues. In particular, I show how public protocols, ease of entry, very fast network expansion … large web site to multiple ISPs (customer multi-homing) enhance price competition and make it very unlikely that any firm …