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Advertising Competition in the Free-to-Air TV Broadcasting Industry
Ivaldi, Marc - 2017
This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955187
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Assessing Horizontal Mergers Under Uncertain Efficiency Gains
Choné, Philippe - 2006
that competition authorities should welcome the risk for a given expectation of efficiency gains. Implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779951
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Assessing Horizontal Mergers under Uncertain Efficiency Gains
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - CESifo - 2006
that competition authorities should welcome the risk for a given expectation of efficiency gains. Implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416449
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Big Data Analytics : A New Perspective
Chudik, Alexander - 2016
Model specification and selection are recurring themes in econometric analysis. Both topics become considerably more complicated in the case of large-dimensional data sets where the set of specification possibilities can become quite large. In the context of linear regression models, penalised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994196
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Multimarket Linkages, Cartel Discipline and Trade Costs
Agnosteva, Delina - 2018
We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs. A key feature of the model is that cartel discipline is endogenous. Thus, markets that appear segmented are strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926563
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Abuse of Dominance and Antitrust Enforcement in the German Electricity Market
Duso, Tomaso - 2017
In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944881
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Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and Cartel Prosecutions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2015
While price-fixing cartel prosecutions have received significant attention, the policy determinants and the political preferences that guide such antitrust prosecutions remain understudied. We empirically examine the intertemporal shifts in U.S. antitrust cartel prosecutions during the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012564
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Leniency Programs in a Multimarket Setting : Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus
Roux, Catherine; von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas - 2021
We examine the effects of Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus, influencing firms' whistle blowing incentives in one market, on their self-reporting decision in another market. Amnesty Plus and Penalty Plus are proactive US strategies which aim at triggering multiple confessions by increasing the...
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Fighting Collusion by Permitting Price Discrimination
Helfrich, Magdalena - 2016
We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a model with two firms that may be able to discriminate between two consumer groups. Two cases are analyzed: (i) Best-response symmetries so that profits in the static Nash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996205
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Price or Variety? An Evaluation of Mergers Effects in Grocery Retailing
Argentesi, Elena - 2018
-price target's stores reduced the depth of their assortment when in direct competition with the acquirer's stores, the latter … offerings in order to avoid cannibalization and lessen local competition. Further, we show that other dimensions of … heterogeneity, such as market concentration, whether a divestiture was imposed by the Dutch competition authority, and the re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915612