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Patent Licensing Networks
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Lefouili, Yassine - NET Institute - 2014
This paper investigates the patent licensing networks formed by competing firms. Assuming that licensing agreements can involve the payment of fixed fees only and that firms compete à la Cournot, we show that the complete network is always bilaterally efficient and that the monopoly network is...
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E-book Pricing and Vertical Restraints
Santos, Babur De los; Wildenbeest, Matthijs - NET Institute - 2014
This paper empirically analyzes how the use of vertical price restraints has impacted retail prices in the market for e-books. In 2010 five of the six largest publishers simultaneously adopted the agency model of book sales, allowing them to directly set retail prices. This led the Department of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934840
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Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The case of the UK Quality Newspapers
Behringer, Stefan; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008525325
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The Elusive Antitrust Standard on Bundling in Europe and in the United States at the Aftermath of the Microsoft Cases
Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2007
We analyze and contrast the US and EU antitrust standards on mixed bundling and tying. We apply our analysis to the US and EU cases against Microsoft on the issue of tying new products (Internet Explorer in the US, and Windows Media Player in the EU) with Windows as well as to cases brought in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622690
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Bundling and Competition for Slots
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - NET Institute - 2007
We study competition among upstream firms when each of them sells a portfolio of distinct products and the downstream has a limited number of slots (or shelf space). In this situation, we study how bundling affects competition for slots. When the downstream has k number of slots, social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622767
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Collusion and the political differentiation of newspapers
Antonielli, Marco; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2011
collusive agreements in terms of welfare and pluralism. We analyse and compare two forms of collusion: in the first, publishers … thus show that collusion on prices reinforces the tendency towards a Pensée Unique discussed in Gabszewicz, Laussel and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905448
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Optimal Cartel Prices in Two-Sided Markets Access
Boffa, Federico; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2014
We study optimal cartel prices in a two-sided market. We present a simple model showing that prices above the two-sided monopoly price may prevail on one side of a two-sided market as a means to enhance the sustainability of the cartel. We prove that in such a case a higher benefit from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936552
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Bundling and Collusion on Communications Markets
Baranes, Edmond - NET Institute - 2006
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 … might increase the feasibility of collusion. This result has an important policy implication. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184810
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A Critical Appraisal of Remedies in the EU Microsoft Cases
Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2009
We discuss and compare the remedies in the two cases antitrust cases of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft. The first EU case alleged (i) that Microsoft illegally bundled the Windows Media Player (WMP) with Windows; and (ii) that Microsoft did not provide adequate documentation that would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621689
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Platform Competition under Asymmetric Information
Halaburda, Hanna; Yehezkel, Yaron - NET Institute - 2011
In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affects the strategies of the platforms and the market outcome. We find that the incumbent dominates the market by setting...
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