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The impact of horizontal mergers on market structure : evidence from the semiconductor industry

Siebert, Ralph - 2016

The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger … evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of … dominated mergers. Interestingly, we also find that mergers foreclose potential entry in other product markets and reduce the …

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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2014

This paper investigates the potential of maternal and infant health programs to improve the life expectancy of women and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from parish records and aggregate data from annual reports of...

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Call the midwife health personnel and mortality in Norway 1887-1921

Kotsadam, Andreas; Lind, Jo Thori; Modalsli, Jørgen Heibø - 2017

The Nordic countries have the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. This has not always been the case. In 1887 the mortality rates in Norway were similar to those of developing countries today. During the next 34 years, Norwegian maternal mortality was halved and infant...

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Imminent entry and the transition to multimarket rivalry in a laboratory setting

Mason, Charles F.; Phillips, Owen R. - 2016

In this paper we study the behavior of rivals when there is a known probability of imminent entry. Experimental markets … are used to collect data on pre- and post-entry production when there is an announced time of possible entry; some markets … 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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Benefits of regulation vs. competition where inequality is high : the case of mobile telephony in South Africa

Hawthorne, Ryan; Grzybowski, Lukasz - 2019

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …. Next, we use a demand and supply equilibrium framework to simulate prices and the distribution of welfare without entry and … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …

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A retrospective study of state aid control in the German broadband market

Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021

significantly increased in the municipalities receiving aid. This additional entry decreased average prices. Therefore, the …

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Technological determinants of the group-size paradox

Kolmar, Martin; Rommeswinkel, Hendrik - 2011

The present paper analyzes situations in which groups compete for rents. A major result in the literature has been that there are both cases where larger groups have advantages and cases where they have disadvantages. The paper provides two intuitive criteria which for groups with homogenous...

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A theory of reciprocity

Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001

This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...

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Efficiency, welfare, and political competition

Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2014

We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote-share-maximizers. They can propose any policy that is...

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Competition and relationship lending : friends or foes?

Presbitero, Andrea; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010

Recent empirical findings by Elsas (2005) and Degryse and Ongena (2007) document a U-shaped effect of market concentration on relationship lending which cannot be easily accommodated by the investment and strategic theories of relationship lending. In this paper, we suggest that this...

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