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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
-commerce. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail-data on whole sale prices provided … on the markup of the price-leader. …
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Strategic pricing, market entry and competition: Evidence from German electricity submarkets
Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
with this contract type we follow the Limit Pricing theory and show that standard contract price could be used as an … instrument to affect competition, in terms of market entries, in the related market. We theoretically derive the optimal price …-setting behavior of a price-discriminating incumbent provider and show that under particular circumstances reducing the standard …
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Market structure and market performance in e-commerce
Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
-commerce. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail-data on whole sale prices provided … on the markup of the price-leader. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646609
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Do pay-as-bid auctions favor collusion? Evidence from Germany's market for reserve power
Heim, Sven; Götz, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven … behavior in an environment with repeated auctions, pivotal suppliers and inelastic demand. The price increase can be traced …
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Mitigating market power under tradeable permits
Heindl, Peter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
As shown by R. Hahn [6], free allocation equal to the amount of permits a firm with market power uses in equilibrium, can prevent welfare losses. If the necessary amount of free allocation is not provided to the firm with market power, a second best solution is obtained where marginal abatement...
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Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation
Cappelli, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We estimate the effect of R&D spillovers on sales realized by products new to the firm (imitation) and new to the market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and research institutions enhance original innovation.
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An economic analysis of online streaming. How the music industry can generate revenues from cloud computing
Thomes, Tim Paul - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
service increases the price for its flat-rate subscribers in order to stimulate free-of-charge demand and to capture higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211178
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An economic analysis of online streaming: How the music industry can generate revenues from cloud computing
Thomes, Tim Paul - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
increases the price for its flat-rate subscribers in order to stimulate free-of-charge demand and to capture higher revenues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283660
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Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company possibly benefits from incoming information on successful R&D conducted by other companies, a generally high probability of leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097637
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Liberalization of the Postal Service Market in Europe: Entry with Universal Service and Partial Coverage
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries we expect that the incumbent operators anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform pricing. The market for postal service exhibits...
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