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Big tech acquisitions and innovation : an empirical assessment

Barsy, Laureen de; Gautier, Axel - 2024

this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … that acquisition increases the innovation effort of the acquirer but only temporarily. After 1.5 year, there is no longer a … significant impact of the acquisition on the acquirer’s innovation effort. This decline is relatively larger when the acquired …

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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects

Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023

We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters' outcomes within a difference-indifferences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …

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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a...

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Dynamic entry and exit linkages in the Brazilian manufacturing industry : an econometric investigation

Resende, Marcelo; Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual; Zeidan, … - 2013

The paper investigates dynamic linkages between entry and exit rates in Brazilian manufacturing in the context of 231 (4-digits) industries during the 1996-2005 period. The empirical analysis focuses on the estimation of a dynamic panel data for entry and exit rates and controls for the business...

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Do mergers among multimarket firms create value?

Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2016

information on mergers and firm-level multimarket production and innovation within the semiconductor industry. Using the pairwise …

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Speed 2.0 : evaluating access to universal digital highways

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Valetti, … - 2015

in property markets. Our empirical strategy combines a boundary discontinuity design with controls for time …

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A treatment effect method for merger analysis with an application to parking prices in Paris

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2010

Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment group and in a control group. We propose a systematic method to construct the groups, which applies to any industry with spatial competition. The method is consistent with the...

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Productivity, price- and wage-markups : an empirical analysis of the Dutch manufacturing industry

Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2015

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to the...

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Concentration and competition : evidence from Europe and implications for policy

Koltay, Gábor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022

The paper provides new evidence on proxy indicators of market power for major European countries. The data shows moderately increasing average industry concentration over the last two decades, a considerably increasing proportion of high concentration industries, and an overall tendency towards...

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Double marginalization and vertical integration

Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent; Vergé, Thibaud - 2021

Asymmetric information in procurement entails double marginalization. The phenomenon is most severe when the buyer has all the bargaining power at the production stage, while it vanishes when the buyer and suppliers' weights are balanced. Vertical integration eliminates double marginalization...

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