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Market Access and Welfare : Is There a Conflict?

Raimondos, Pascalis - 2015

According to the literature, well known tariff reform rules that are guaranteed to increase welfare will not necessarily increase market access, while rules that are guaranteed to increase market access will not necessarily increase welfare. Such conflict between welfare and market access...

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The Value of Incumbency in Heterogeneous Platforms

Biglaiser, Gary - 2016

We study the dynamics of competition in a model with network effects, an incumbent and entry. We propose a new way of …

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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

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Competition in Funding Higher Education

Eckwert, Bernhard - 2012

that funding competition does not rectify the investment inefficiency nor will it improve pooling of individual income … competition and restricted participation yields the highest level of social welfare …

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Imminent Entry and the Transition to Multimarket Rivalry in a Laboratory Setting

Mason, Charles F. - 2016

experience entry and other do not. In all pre-entry markets competition is more intense. Post-entry behavior in all markets is …

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Optimal Litigation Strategies with Signaling and Screening

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2021

This paper examines the strategic effects of case preparation in litigation. Specifically, it shows how the pretrial efforts incurred by one party may alter its adversary's incentives to settle. We build a sequential game with one-sided asymmetric information where the informed party first...

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Market Power and Welfare in Asymmetric Divisible Good Auctions

Manzano, Carolina - 2020

We analyze a divisible good uniform-price auction that features two groups each with a finite number of identical bidders and present conditions under which a unique privately revealing equilibrium exists. We derive novel comparative static results highlighting that increases in transaction...

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Outsourcing in Contests

Meland, Frode - 2006

increases competition between the contestants, leading to higher total contest effort, unless the ex-post bargaining strength of … stronger competition …

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Vertical Licensing, Input Pricing, and Entry

Bakaouka, Elpiniki - 2017

, the licensee's entry into the final products market, although increases the competition and the cost that the licensor …

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Tax Evasion in a Cournot Oligopoly with Endogenous Entry

Goerke, Laszlo - 2017

If an additional competitor reduces output per firm in a homogenous Cournot-oligopoly, market entry will be excessive. Taxes can correct the so-called business stealing externality. We investigate how evading a tax on operating profits affects the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises...

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