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The law and economics of enhancing cartel enforcement: Using information from non-cartel investigations to prosecute cartels
Ghosal, Vivek - 2011
I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277361
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Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment
Aridor, Guy - 2022
I study demand for social media services by conducting an experiment where I monitor how participants spend time on digital services and shut off access to Instagram or YouTube on their mobile phones. I characterize how participants substitute their time during and after the restrictions, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290100
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Drivers of Digital Attention : Evidence from a Social Media Experiment
Aridor, Guy - 2023
I study demand for social media services by conducting an experiment where I monitor how participants spend time on digital services and shut off access to Instagram or YouTube on their mobile phones. I characterize how participants substitute their time during and after the restrictions, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263188
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Benefits of Regulation vs. Competition Where Inequality is High : The Case of Mobile Telephony in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019
We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …. Next, we use a demand and supply equilibrium framework to simulate prices and the distribution of welfare without entry and … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866874
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Efficient Level of SEPs Licensing
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022
We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel; Lamesch, Joe - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179855
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Buying to Sell: Private Equity Buyouts and Industrial Restructuring
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2013
We show how temporary ownership by private equity firms affects industry structure, competition and welfare. Temporary …
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Virtual capacity and competition
Schultz, Christian - 2005
In several European merger cases competition authorities have demanded that the merging firm auctions off virtual … marginal cost. This output is sold in the market in competition with the merging firm. The paper compares sale of physical and …
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Returns to Data: Evidence from Web Tracking
Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024
Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing...
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Benefits of Regulation vs. Competition Where Inequality Is High: The Case of Mobile Telephony in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan; Grzybowski, Lukasz - 2019
We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …. Next, we use a demand and supply equilibrium framework to simulate prices and the distribution of welfare without entry and … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052809