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Platform competition and information sharing
Petropoulos, Georgios; Martens, Bertin; Parker, Geoffrey; … - 2023
price regulation over information sharing like the one applied in the EU jurisdiction increases the incentives of big …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014365917
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Entry regulation and the influence of an incumbent special interest group
Evans, John Bussell; Fingleton, John - 2002
entry re-regulation context. In contrast to other entry deterrence models, we are able to investigate how product market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539115
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Preferential trade agreements and global sourcing
Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L.; Bickwit, Grant - 2018
We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and welfare under incomplete contracting and endogenous matching. Contract incompleteness implies underinvestment. That inefficiency is mitigated by a PTA, because the agreement...
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The costs and benefits of rules of origin in modern free trade agreements
Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L. - 2022
We study the welfare impact of rules of origin in free trade agreements where final-good producers source customized inputs from suppliers within the trading bloc. We employ a property-rights framework that features hold-up problems in suppliers' decisions to invest, and where underinvestment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362760
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Private enforcement, corruption, and antitrust design
Grajzl, Peter; Baniak, Andrzej - 2015
antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of … precluding private antitrust enforcement as one salient choice in antitrust design depends on whether antitrust enforcement is … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of …
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The interplay between regulation and competitions : the case of universal service obligations
Hörnig, Steffen; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2002
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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Fare evasion and monopoly regulation
Besfamille, Martin; Figueroa, Nicolás; Guzmán, León - 2022
We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822098
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Powering up developing countries through integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - 2012
investment. -- regulation ; competition ; market integration ; investment ; electricity …
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Productivity and firm boundaries
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2018
This paper develops and applies a test of the property rights theory of the firm in the context of global input sourcing. We use the model by Pol Antràs and Elhanan Helpman, "Global Sourcing," Journal of Political Economy, 112:3 (2004), 552-80, to derive a new prediction regarding how the...
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Gender and collusion
Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina; Rau, Holger A. - 2022
Many cartels are formed by individual managers of different firms, but not by firms as collectives. However, most of the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals' incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms,...
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