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An empirical analysis of bundling and tying : over-the-counter pain relief and cold medicines : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Recent Developments in Anti...

Evans, David S.; Salinger, Michael A. - 2004

We apply and extend the cost-based approach to bundling and tying under competition developed in Evans and Salinger (2004a) to over-the-counter pain relievers and cold medicines. We document that consumers pay much less for tablets with multiple ingredients than they would to buy tablets with...

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The division of labor and the market for organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

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Privatization under asymmetric information

Bös, Dieter - 2000

This paper models privatization as a cooperative game between the government, a trade union and the private … shareholders. These players kno w that privatization increases the efficiency of a firm, but only the management of the firm knows …

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External constraints matter for privatizations

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014

We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...

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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004

U.S. network industry reforms led other countries in the past, but have recently run into difficulties in specific areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the California disaster. Part of the explanation for these...

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From public monopsony to competitive market : more efficiency but higher prices

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2003

This paper examines the consequences of creating a fully competitive market in a sector previously dominated by a cost-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical findings, our model implies that firms in the...

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Private enforcement, corruption, and antitrust design

Grajzl, Peter; Baniak, Andrzej - 2015

Recent adoption of competition laws across the globe has highlighted the importance of institutional considerations for antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of substantive law. Contributing to the resulting nascent...

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Macroeconomic effects of social security privatization in a small unionized economy

Adam, Antonis (contributor) - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of a pension system privatization in a unionized economy. Using an overlapping … state may result in lower levels of employment and capital stock. In this case even if the privatization increases the … employment then a Paretoimproving pension privatization scheme can be constructed. …

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Activists versus captured regulators

Daubanes, Julien; Rochet, Jean-Charles - 2013

We analyze the consequences of activism in a regulated industry where the regulator has been captured by the industry. Unlike ordinary economic agents, activists are insensitive to monetary incentives. Moreover, they are less well informed than regulators and their actions generate dead-weight...

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Government outsourcing : public contracting with private monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle (contributor); … - 2006

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