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Market Concentration in Europe : Evidence from Antitrust Markets
Affeldt, Pauline; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021
An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...
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Use and Abuse of Antidumping by Global Cartels
Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Hoffstadt, Martin - 2021
Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy for anticompetitive purposes remains an open question in the literature. To address this gap, we construct a novel dataset that matches cartel investigations with trade data at...
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The Sociology of Cartels
Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina - 2022
Traditional economic theory of collusion assumed that cartels are inherently unstable, and yet some manage to operate for years or even decades. While the literature has presented several determinants of cartel stability, the vast majority focuses on firms as entities, even though cartels are...
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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 capacity. The buyer of virtual capacity receives an option on an amount of output at a pre-specified price, typically equal to marginal cost. This output is sold in the market in...
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The Economics of Platforms : A Theory Guide for Competition Policy
Jullien, Bruno - 2020
We propose an analysis of platform competition based on the academic literature with a view towards competition policy. First, we discuss to which extent competition can emerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular, we underline the role of dynamics, but also of...
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Merger Policy and Tax Competition
Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - 2021
In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the …
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Competition and stability in banking
Vives, Xavier - 2010
implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …
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Price discrimination bans on dominant firms
Bouckaert, Jan; Degryse, Hans; Dijk, Theon van - 2008
Competition authorities and regulatory agencies sometimes impose pricing restrictions on firms with substantial market power the dominant firms. We analyze the welfare effects of a ban on behaviour-based price discrimination in a two-period setting where the market displays a competitive and a...
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Regulating national firms in a common market
Biancini, Sara - 2008
We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …
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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008
We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …
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