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Airport noise regulation, airline service quality, and social welfare
Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); Girvin, Raquel (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379804
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of … exploit regional differences in deregulation following a 2008 reform. Controlling for initial conditions, first …-difference estimates show that local deregulation increases local investment in infrastructure by both the incumbent and competitors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752995
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A leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets
Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2016
Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536190
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Industry structure and pricing over the business cycle
Spiegel, Yossi; Stahl, Konrad - 2014
We consider the interaction between an incumbent firm and a potential entrant, and examine how this interaction is affected by demand fluctuations. Our model gives rise to procyclical entry, prices, and price-cost margins, although the average price in the market can be countercyclical if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010367376
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Price equilibrium with selling constraints
Moraga-González, José Luis; Watanabe, Makoto - 2023
This paper studies how selling constraints, which refer to the inability of firms to attend to all the buyers who want to inspect their products, affect the equilibrium price and social welfare. We show that the price that maximizes social welfare is greater than the marginal cost. This is...
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When backward integration by a dominant firm improves welfare
Linnemer, Laurent - 2002
This paper studies the welfare consequences of a vertical merger that raises rivals costs when downstream competition is à la Cournot between firms with constant asymmetric marginal costs. The main result is that such a vertical merger can nevertheless improve welfare if it involves a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410253
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Tacit collusion under destination- and origin-based commodity taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2000
The paper employs a standard model of dynamic price competition to study how international principles of value-added taxation affect the stability of collusive agreements when producers in an international duopoly agree not to export into each other's home market and tax rates differ across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781559
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Pricing by international airline alliances : a retrospective study using supplementary foreign-carrier fare data
Brueckner, Jan K.; Singer, Ethan - 2019
This study provides further empirical evidence on pricing by international airline alliances. The paper covers a long sample period, which runs from 1997 to 2016, and it supplements the usual USDOT fare data with confidential fare data reported by the foreign alliance partners of US carriers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022210
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Competitive imperfect price discrimination and market power
Belleflamme, Paul; Lam, Wing Man Wynne; Vergote, Wouter - 2019 - This version: November 2019
Two duopolists compete in price on the market for a homogeneous product. They can ‘profile’ consumers, i.e., identify their valuations with some probability. If both firms can profile consumers but with different abilities, then they achieve positive expected profits at equilibrium. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129753
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Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market revisited
Basak, Debasmita; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016
In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises...
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