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Selling Strategic Information in Digital Competitive Markets
Bounie, David - 2018
broker therefore strategically sells partial information on consumers in order to soften competition between firms. Extending …
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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges : Fixed vs. Mobile Networks
Choi, Jay Pil - 2014
We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
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Market Liberalization in the European Natural Gas Market - The Importance of Capacity Constraints and Efficiency Differences
Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles; van … - 2021
industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher … for natural gas, are characterized by imperfect competition and increasing costs to develop new energy sources. As a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316347
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges: Fixed vs. Mobile Networks
Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - CESifo - 2014
We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider’s (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948849
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A Leverage Theory of Tying in Two-Sided Markets
Choi, Jay Pil - 2016
Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980583
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Market Liberalization in the European Natural Gas Market - The Importance of Capacity Constraints and Efficiency Differences
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - CESifo - 2009
industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher … for natural gas, are characterized by imperfect competition and increasing costs to develop new energy sources. As a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013042
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Tax Rate and Tax Base Competition for Foreign Direct Investment
Egger, Peter; Raff, Horst - CESifo - 2011
countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320778
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The Political Economy of Regional Integration Projects at Borders where Rich and Poor Meet: The Role of Cross-Border Shopping and Community Sorting
Dascher, Kristof; Haupt, Alexander - CESifo - 2008
At borders where rich and poor countries meet, services prices differ hugely. In principle, price differentials could be exploited to mutual benefit, offering improved job opportunities to the poor as well as better shopping opportunities to the rich. However, cross-border shopping is often...
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Commodity Taxation and Regulatory Competition
Moriconi, Simone - 2017
This paper studies theoretically and empirically competition in commodity taxation and product market regulation … taxes finance public goods, and product market regulation affects both the number of firms in the market and product … commodity taxation and product market regulation are interdependent policies. We find absence of strategic interaction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960999