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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation : Bell Labs and the 1956 consent
Watzinger, Martin; Fackler, Thomas; Nagler, Markus; … - 2017
We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having...
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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 ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in...
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Does demography determine democratic attitudes?
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2022
political influences that shape democratic attitudes. The results reveal that support for democracy increases with age and is … bloc and in other countries around the world. Additional findings document that demography's effect partly captures … heterogeneity in experiences with democracy, and that socioeconomic factors impact democratic attitudes. …
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The breakup of the Bell System and its impact on US innovation
Watzinger, Martin; Schnitzer, Monika - 2022
We analyze the effects of the 1984 breakup of the Bell System on the rate, diversity, and direction of US innovation. In the antitrust case leading to the breakup, AT&T, the holding company of the Bell System, was accused of using exclusionary practices against competitors. The breakup was...
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Cartel dating
Boswijk, Herman Peter; Bun, Maurice J. G.; Schinkel, … - 2016
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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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Regulating big tech and non-bank financial services in the digital era
Thammarak Moenjak; Veerathai Santiprabhob - 2021
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Favoritism by the governing elite
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023
In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We hand-collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining this...
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Leveraging monopoly power by degrading interoperability : theory and evidence from computer markets
Genakos, Christos; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Van Reenen, John - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009243153
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Relevant market delineation and horizontal merger simulation : a unified approach
Fiuza, Eduardo P. S. - 2015
While often times the Hypothetical Monopolist Test (HMT) utilized in relevant market delineation is implemented with uniform price increases throughout all the goods in the candidate relevant market, since 1984 the versions of the U.S. Merger Guidelines have emphasized that these small but...
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