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extent of competition from substitute products. I estimate that, in 2019, public corporations produced consumer surplus in …
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explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially … interacting forces: a composition effect that determines the market concentration and an incentive effect that determines how … firms respond to a given concentration in the economy. The results highlight that a decline in knowledge diffusion between …
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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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New England is at the leading edge of an energy transition in which natural gas is playing an increasingly important role in the US electricity generation mix. In recent years, the region’s wholesale natural gas and electricity markets have experienced severe, simultaneous price spikes. While...
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concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind … evidence that corroborates a declining knowledge diffusion in the economy. We document a higher concentration of patenting in …
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An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in … many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market … scrutinized by the European Commission between 1995 and 2014. We show that concentration, as measured by the market-specific post …
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gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely …
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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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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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