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diversity of telecommunications innovation increased. Total patenting by US inventors related to telecommunications increased by …
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less educated consumers with lower savings are most affected. Our findings highlight the important role of competition …
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antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having foreclosed the market for telecommunications equipment. The terms of the decree … allowed Bell to remain a vertically integrated monopolist in the telecommunications industry, but as a remedy, Bell had to … only outside the telecommunications equipment industry. The lack of a positive innovation effect in the telecommunications …
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, depending on the distribution and magnitude of cross and own price elasticities in the potential market. …
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We analyze platform competition where user data is collected to improve adtargeting. Considering that users incur … overall competition is weak or if targeting benefits are low, too much private data is collected, and vice-versa. Further, we … find that softer competition on either market side leads to more data collection, which implies substitutability between …
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A central motivating factor for studying price markups is their effect on consumer welfare. Reported estimates of (firm-level) price markups in the literature, however, are often focused on industry or cross-country comparisons. These treat different industries equally rather than based on how...
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We demonstrate how the incentives of firms that partially own their suppliers or customers to foreclose rivals depend on how the partial owner can extract profits from the target. Compared to a fully vertically integrated firm, a partial owner may obtain only a share of the target's profit but...
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Policy choices often entail trade-offs between workers and consumers. I assess how foreign competition changes the …
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Policy choices often entail trade-offs between workers and consumers. I assess how foreign competition changes the …
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