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We examine how standardization in the information and communication technologies affects the inventive activities of …-contributing firms have 18%-20% less inventive output in the same technological area. This negative effect of standardization in a …
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-consumer price discrimination; and (iii) inter-product price discrimination, and assess the antitrust liability that these practices … may entail. We also discuss the impact on consumers and competition, as well as potential antitrust liability of bundling …
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This paper investigates the price war in the UK quality newspaper industry in the 1990s. We build a model of the newspaper market which encompasses demand for differentiated products on both, the readers and advertisers side of the market, and profit maximization by four competing oligopolistic...
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technical protections a®ect the pricing of content, and consequently, why content users, content vendors, and antitrust …
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We discuss issues of the application of antitrust law and regulatory rules to network industries. In assessing the … application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in … which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects …
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We discuss salient economic aspects of the Internet, including the possible abolition of net neutrality by local broadband access networks as well as potential incompatibilities and degradation of connectivity in the Internet backbone.
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We discuss and compare the remedies in the two cases antitrust cases of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft. The …
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I discuss the impact of tying, bundling, and loyalty/requirement rebates on consumer surplus in the affected markets. I show that the Chicago School Theory of a single monopoly surplus that justifies tying, bundling, and loyalty/requirement rebates on the basis of efficiency typically fails....
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We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patent holder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … the patented invention. Economic theory suggests that it is inappropriate to immunize a patent holder from antitrust …. Courts have expressed their reluctance to scrutinize a patent holder’s innovations and design changes, because of the …
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This paper discusses how antitrust law and regulatory rules should be applied to network industries. In assessing the … application of antitrust in network industries, we analyze a number of relevant features of network industries and the way in … which antitrust law and regulatory rules can affect them. These relevant features include (among others) network effects …
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