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stress that competition and regulatory authorities should take seriously the potential trade-off between market power effects …
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The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of firms in the markets. We empirically test this aspect of...
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This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a … oligopoly competition and identify the shape and magnitude of the feedback loop between TV viewers and advertisers. We also … implement a simple procedure to identify the conduct of firms on the market. We find that the nature of competition in the …
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In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
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The relationship between competition and performance-related pay has been analyzed in single … competition when aggregated firm data is used. -- Cournot competition ; contract delegation ; moral hazard ; entry ; market size …
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Mergers realize heterogeneous competitive effects on profits, production, and prices. To date, it is unclear whether differential merger outcomes are caused mostly by firms' technology or product market attributes. Furthermore, empirical merger studies conventionally assume that, conditional on...
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competition model with entry in which exchanges supply technological services, and have market power. We find that technological … services can be strategic substitutes or complements in platform competition. Free entry of platforms delivers a superior …
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Merger value is frequently evaluated in single market contexts without considering possible gains stemming from firms' multimarket presence. This study concentrates on the question through which channels, and of which magnitude, mergers among multimarket firms create incremental value. We...
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This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …
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local credit markets. We provide evidence that marginal increases in interbank competition are detrimental to relationship … technologies are al-ready widely in use in the market by a large group of small mutual banks, an increase in competition may drive … banks to further cultivate their extensive ties with customers. -- interbank competition ; market organizational structure …
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