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A treatment effect method for merger analysis with an application to parking prices in Paris

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2010

Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment …

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Competition for viewers and advertisers in a TV oligopoly

Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars - 2006

We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We show that advertisers make a lower profit the larger the number of TV channels. If TV channels are sufficiently close substitutes, there will be underprovision of advertising...

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Anti-competitive conduct, in-house R&D, and growth

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - 2007

Incumbent firms have two basic possibilities to improve their competitive position in the product market: investment in R&D and the creation of entry barriers to the disadvantage of potential rivals, e.g. through lobbying activities, campaign contributions, bribes or the adoption of incompatible...

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Competition for firms in an oligopolistic industry: do firms or countries have to pay?

Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2007

We set up a model of generalised oligopoly where two countries of different size compete for an exogenous, but variable, number of identical firms. The model combines a desire by national governments to attract internationally mobile firms with the existence of location rents that arise even in...

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Preemption, start-up decisions and the firms' capital structure

Moretto, Michele; Panteghini, Paolo M. - 2007

In this article, we analyse the interactions between financial and start-up decisions in an oligopolistic framework, where firms compete to enter a new market. We show that preemption can substantially reduce the negative effects of credit rationing on start-up investment decisions.

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Negative intra-group externalities in two-sided markets

Belleflamme, Paul; Toulemonde, Eric - 2007

Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing...

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Tax evasion and competition

Goerke, Laszlo; Runkel, Marco - 2007

Using a Cournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, this paper shows that more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar...

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Indirect taxation in vertical oligopoly

Peitz, Martin; Reisinger, Markus - 2009

This paper analyzes the effects of specific and ad valorem taxation in an industry with downstream and upstream oligopoly. We find that in the short run, i.e. when the number of firms in both markets is exogenous, the results concerning tax incidence tend to be qualitatively similar to models...

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Market shares in two-sided media industries

Kind, Hans Jarle; Stähler, Frank - 2009

market shares. We show that advertisement levels depend neither on the media price nor on the location of the media firm. An … increase in advertising revenues does not change location but only the media price. If the distribution of consumers is … price. The larger firm makes a higher profit per reader and in aggregate compared to its smaller rival. …

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...

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