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Critical loss analysis in market definition and merger control

Hüschelrath, Kai - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

. This development is documented by various research papers, high-level exchanges between antitrust experts as well as an …

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Low cost carriers and the evolution of the US airline industry

Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The article studies the evolution of the U.S airline industry from 1995 to 2009 using T-100 traffic data and DB1B fare data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Based on a differentiation in market size and major players, entry and exit, concentration, fares, service, costs and profits,...

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Patterns and effects of entry in US airline markets

Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

We use T-100 traffic data and DB1B fare data from the U.S. Department of Transportation to identify patterns and effects of entry by network carriers and low-cost carriers in non-stop U.S. airline markets. For the sample period from 1996 to 2009, we find that entry activity of low-cost carriers...

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Methodologische Grundlagen einer Evaluation von Wettbewerbspolitik

Hüschelrath, Kai - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Im Jahre 2005 fand im Rahmen eines OECD Policy Roundtables ein intensiver Meinungsaustausch der Mitgliedsstaaten zu dem Thema 'Evaluation of the Actions and Resources of the Competition Authorities' statt. Eine wesentliche Erkenntnis der Gespräche bestand in der Feststellung, dass...

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Detection of Anticompetitive Horizontal Mergers

Hüschelrath, Kai - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

The paper develops a four-step framework to detect anticompetitive horizontal mergers. In the first step, an estimate of the impact of the merger on the market price needs to be derived. Subsequent, the second step of the framework has to assess whether such a predicted price increase would be...

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Is it Worth all the Trouble? The Costs and Benefits of Antitrust Enforcement

Hüschelrath, Kai - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

The paper aims at assessing the costs and benefits of antitrust enforcement. The analysis starts with an investigation … competition actually needs protection by antitrust policy in order to hinder firms to permanently abuse market power to the … detriment of consumers. Subsequently, an estimation of the costs and benefits of antitrust enforcement is undertaken for the …

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The value of bluer skies: How much do consumers gain from entry by JetBlue Airways in long-haul US Airline Markets?

Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

The paper estimates the effects of entry by low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways in long-haul domestic U.S. airline markets. For the period from 2000 to 2009, we find that non-stop fares were on average about 21 percent lower post-entry; however, the magnitude of the price effect depends on the...

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Backwards integration and strategic delegation

Hunold, Matthias; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stahl, Konrad - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

We analyze the effects of downstream firms' acquisition of pure cash flow rights in an efficient upstream supplier when all firms compete in prices. With an acquisition, downstream firms internalize the effects of their actions on their rivals' sales. Double marginalization is enhanced. Whereas...

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Market power, efficiencies, and entry: Evidence from an airline merger

Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

We investigate the competitive effects of the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines (2009) in the domestic U.S. airline industry. Applying fixed effects regression models we find that the transaction led to short term price increases of about 11 percent on overlapping routes and...

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Forward integration and market entry: Evidence from natural gas markets for household customers in Germany

Nikogosian, Vigen; Weigand, Jürgen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Due to potential abuse of the market power at wholesale and retail market level for natural gas the Federal Cartel Office in Germany prohibited further forward integration of gas importing firms with retail incumbents from 2005/2006 to 2010. The Authority argued that the very few dominant gas...

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