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Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2015

merger by either reducing or increasing both price and quality. Welfare implications are not clear-cut and mergers might …

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Upstream horizontal mergers and efficiency gains

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Pavlou, Apostolis - 2009

We study upstream horizontal mergers and their potential efficiency gains. We show that an upstream horizontal merger … and decreases wholesale prices when downstream competition is not too strong. Examining whether the merger’s potential …

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Product differentiation and oligopoly : a network approach

Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023

This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product …

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Heterogenous switching costs

Biglaiser, Gary; Crémer, Jacques; Dobos, Gergely - 2014

We consider a simple two period model where consumers have different switching costs. Before the market opens, there was an incumbent who sold to all consumers. We identify the equilibrium both with Stackelberg and Bertrand competition and show how the presence of low switching cost consumers...

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Horizontal merger under strategic tax policy

Liu, Chih-Chen; Mukherjee, Arijit; Wang, Leonard F. S. - 2014

We show that the presence of a strategic tax policy increases the incentive for a horizontal merger compared to the … a horizontal merger that has been ignored in the existing literature. In contrast to the usual belief, we also show that … a horizontal merger may benefit the consumers and the society. …

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Taxation in digital media markets

Kind, Hans Jarle; Köthenbürger, Marko - 2016

Digital media goods and digital media platforms exhibit cost structures and network effects that imply that price and quantity effects of consumption taxes are qualitatively different compared to what we typically find for physical goods. For instance, in most European countries and US states,...

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Technical barriers to trade and firms' export cecisions

Yang, Shuyao - 2020

This paper investigates the impact of restrictive TBTs on firms' extensive margins (export participation and exit probability), intensive margins (export value) and pricing strategy (export price). To this end, product-level restrictive TBTs and firm-level export are combined and an...

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Source versus residence based taxation with international mergers and acquisitions

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2009

This paper analyses tax competition and tax coordination in a model where capital flows occur in the form of mergers and acquisitions, rather than greenfield investment. In this framework, we show that differences in residence based taxes do not necessarily distort international ownership...

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Mergers and partial ownership

Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg Eric - 2010

In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find …

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Competition and innovation in automobile markets

Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015

find interesting results linking patents to GM's bankruptcy, the Daimler-Chrysler merger, environmental regulations …

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