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We analyze the effects of structural remedies on merger activity in a Cournot oligopoly when the antitrust agency applies a consumer surplus standard. Remedies increase the scope for profitable and acceptable mergers, while divestitures to an entrant firm are most effective in this regard....
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Given various recent antitrust investigations on the retail sector, we deal with uncovering demand systems substitution patterns for a particular market (diapers) to investigate the inter-format competition (supermarkets vs. discounters vs. drugstores). Using the uncovered demand system we...
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. Depending on the ratio of switching costs to network effects, our model generates convergence to monopoly as well as market … switching costs market sharing is the unique equilibrium and for small switching costs both monopoly and market sharing … equilibria emerge. We also analyze stationary and stable equilibria, where we show that a monopoly outcome is almost inevitable …
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