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The Essential Facilities Doctrine: The Lost Message of Terminal Railroad
Maurer, Stephen M.; Scotchmer, Suzanne - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
avoid antitrust liability, or create sharing arrangements that undermine competition. We show how and why the original … competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010760346
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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges: Fixed vs. Mobile Networks
Choi, Jay; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011160747
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Internet Interconnection and Network Neutrality
Choi, Jay; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012
We analyze competition between interconnected networks when content is heterogeneous in its sensitivity to delivery …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189159
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Is the level of financial sector development a key determinant of private investment in the power sector?
Gasmi, Farid; Lika, Ba; Noumba Um, Paul - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2010
TThis paper seeks to assess the extent to which a country’s overall level of development and that of its financial sector, in particular, are factors that attract private capital into infrastructure projects. The authors investigate these effects in a 1990–2007 dataset on the power sector in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672301
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A Theory of BOT Concession Contracts
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011
In this paper, we discuss the choice for build-operate-and-transfer (BOT) concessions when governments and …rm managers do not share the same information regarding the operation characteristics of a facility. We show that larger shadow costs of public funds and larger information asymmetries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369361
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Abuse of Dominance and Licensing of Intellectual Property
Rey, Patrick; Salant, David - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012
also intensifies downstream competition, and thus dissipates profits. As a result, the upstream IP monopoly may want to … monopoly owner of essential IP increases the number of licenses, it enhances product variety, adding to consumer value, but it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004745
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Worried about Adverse Product Effects? Information Disclosure and Consumer Awareness
Li, Sanxi; Peitz, Martin; Zhao, Xiaojian - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2010
disclose information. To obtain a better understanding of this issue we propose a simple monopoly model that highlights the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008643928
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Market Power Screens Willingness-to-Pay
Tirole, Jean; Weyl, Glen - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011
and market size of the innovation. The appropriate degree of market power is never full monopoly pricing and is determined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369357
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Private Antitrust Enforcement in the Presence of Pre-Trial Bargaining
Bourjade, Sylvain; Rey, Patrick; Seabright, Paul - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009
We study the effect of encouraging private actions for breaches of competition law. We develop a model in which a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465368
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AirTicket Sales as Bids from Airline Alliances
Ivaldi, Marc; Petrova, Milena; Urdanoz, Miguel - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
Bertrand competition and the reverse English auction. We then apply an MLE method, developed by Paarsch (1997) for esti- mating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011160748