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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 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 … antitrust principles, courts have found that monopolists could be liable for unlawfully extending their monopoly positions into …
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Our study extends the empirical literature on whether vertical restraints are anticompetitive. We focus on exclusive contracting in platform markets, which feature indirect network effects and thus are susceptible to applications barriers to entry. Theory suggests that exclusive contracts in...
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substantive liability standards for dominant firms in US antitrust law and in EC Competition law. The competition law remedies …
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We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, we study access pricing rules that determine the access price that network i pays to network j as a linear function of the...
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Although we have many tools to understand the effect of regulation on competition, we know little about the importance … of enforcement in explaining the impact of regulation. For this purpose, this paper uses data from Spanish local … with the introduction of regulation and a posterior liberalization. During this period, the television industry …
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