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The breakup of the Bell System and its impact on US innovation
Watzinger, Martin; Schnitzer, Monika - 2022
. In the antitrust case leading to the breakup, AT&T, the holding company of the Bell System, was accused of using …
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Antitrust and (foreign) innovation : evidence from the Xerox case
Mamrak, Robin - 2023
How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by … empirically studying the US antitrust case against Xerox, the monopolist in the market for plain-paper copiers. In 1975, Xerox was …
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Bank mergers in the financial crisis : a competition policy perspective
Hellwig, Michael; Laser, Falk Hendrik - 2019
We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the merging banks decreased interest rates by 3 to 5 percent...
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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation : Bell Labs and the 1956 consent
Watzinger, Martin; Fackler, Thomas; Nagler, Markus; … - 2017
antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having foreclosed the market for telecommunications equipment. The terms of the decree …
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How does democracy cause growth?
Boese, Vanessa Alexandra; Eberhardt, Markus - 2023 - This version: July 6th, 2023
institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and … opportunities as well as the distribution of political power shaped by underlying institutions, in combination with the extent of … selection into institutional change, and run horse races between underlying institutions. We find that freedom of expression …
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All-pay competition with captive consumers
Foucart, Renaud; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2021
We study a game in which two firms compete in quality to serve a market consisting of consumers with different initial consideration sets. If both firms invest below a certain threshold, they only compete for those consumers already aware of their existence. Above this threshold, a firm is...
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Search and equilibrium prices : theory and evidence from retail diesel
Cabral, Luís M. B.; Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2019 - This version: March 27, 2019
We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We develop a theoretical model and show that average price is a U-shaped function of the measure of searchers: prices are highest when there are no searchers (local monopoly power)...
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Trade and competition : mark-ups, concentration, and international orientation : discussion and empirical test for Brazilian manufacturing sectors
Oliveira, Glauco Avelino Sampaio - 2022
This paper discusses the relation between trade and competition, revising the literature and using indicators, build with Brazilian industrial survey (PIA/IBGE) and foreign trade (Comtrade) data. The premise is that the structure of domestic competition is explained by concentration indices,...
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Crime, deterrence and punishment revisited
Kelaher, Richard; Sarafidis, Vasilis; Bun, Maurice J. G. - 2016
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2024 - This version: July, 2024
elements of tax morale increase compliance by another 1.4 percentage points. Deterrence nudges, which inform taxpayers about …
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