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Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001

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Reassessing competition concerns in electronic communications markets

Peitz, Martin; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2014

Central features of today’s electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437054

Market concentration and international outsourcing

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001

This paper shows that market concentration is positively related to outsourcing activities in a framework of Cournot competition with strategic outsourcing in a first stage. The theoretical priors are confirmed by rank correlation coefficients between the intermediate goods import intensity and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492264

Beyond national economy-wide rebound effects : an applied general equilibrium analysis incorporating international spillover effects

Koesler, Simon; Swales, John Kim; Turner, Karen - 2014

This paper proposes that the national focus of energy ‘rebound’ studies should be extended to an international context in the presence of supra-national agreements such as EU 20-20-20. The potential for energy efficiency improvements in one nation to impact energy use in others means that...

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Rent sharing to control non-cartel supply in the German cement market

Harrington, Joseph Emmett; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016

A challenge for many cartels is avoiding a destabilizing increase in non-cartel supply in response to having raised … price. In the case of the German cement cartel that operated over 1991-2002, the primary source of non-cartel supply was … imports from Eastern European cement manufacturers. Industry sources have claimed that the cartel sought to control imports by …

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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence

Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017

on average significantly lower in cartel years than in non-cartel years. …

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Competition, collusion and spatial sales patterns : theory and evidence

Hunold, Matthias; Hüschelrath, Kai; Laitenberger, Ulrich; … - 2017 - This version: December 31, 2017

on average significantly lower in cartel years than in non-cartel years. …

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Giving away the game? : The impact of the disclosure effect on the patenting decision

Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra - 2012

This article explores the propensity to patent in the light of the disclosure effect. Unlike earlier approaches concerned with the patenting decision, we take into account that a disclosure effect may decrease the merits of patenting by facilitating inventing around the patent for competitors....

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A look at both sides of the coin : investigating the protective and the disclosure effect of patenting

Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra - 2013

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of the two basic effects of patenting: the positive effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application. Providing empirical evidence for the presented theoretical...

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Ownership and control in a competitive industry

Karle, Heiko; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad - 2011

We study a differentiated product market in which an investor initially owns a controlling stake in one of two competing firms and may acquire a non-controlling or a controlling stake in a competitor, either directly using her own assets, or indirectly via the controlled firm. While industry...

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