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Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …
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Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...
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We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for … price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing … competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of consumer data collected. We argue that merger policy guidelines should …
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limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
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Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that … to what extent such regulatory policy can stimulate competition. Our main finding is that, in the short run, asymmetric …
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competition policy is likely to face more challenges as large companies are becoming more common in more and more industries. …
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Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national co …
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This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory … competition law since the early 1990s have strengthened competitive forces in many sectors of the economy, and proposed amendments … have helped vigorous competition to develop in most segments, but there remain problems in pricing of access to the local …
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This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …
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Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …
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